How to Use counterproductive in a Sentence

counterproductive

adjective

• His uncontrollable anger is very counterproductive to his attempt at saving his marriage.
• That would be one way to get your mind off her because sitting around thinking about her is counterproductive.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2020
• Release all that is stale and counterproductive, and try new health regimens.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• But sitting in meetings all day can be counterproductive, impair work-life balance and hurt morale.
  — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
• Still, some studies show that cloth masks are ineffective and sometimes even counterproductive.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 30 July 2020
• However, board members agreed mass testing could be counterproductive, unless done daily.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 20 Aug. 2020
• Avoiding restaurants who cannot employ their own delivery team and help support local delivery workers via third party apps seems counterproductive at a time like this.
  — The Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
• Some say, however, that the pardon is counterproductive, as Anthony intended to defy the law with her actions.
  — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2020
• But the veil of secrecy that many college football programs prefer to operate under is counterproductive in this circumstance.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2020
• But some vaccine proponents say that requiring workers to get immunized, even if well-intentioned, would be counterproductive.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
• The use of a last name could even be counterproductive.
  — Maya Davis, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
• Wulfeck said many of the changes would be counterproductive.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• In fact, trying to suck the venom out of a snake bite is counterproductive.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024
• The guys that are rehabbing are on their own right now, which to me seems very counterproductive here.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• But a campaign to change the language of disease, based on the urge to do something, could be counterproductive.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• And her presence won’t help, and could be counterproductive, in red states.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
• Blackstock said the two-case rule is counterproductive on that front.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 2 Apr. 2021
• Some argue that pulling out of Georgia would be counterproductive to the cause and harm workers.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• A lot of people may see hair trimming as counterproductive when trying to gain length, but Afro hair needs to be trimmed.
  — Sheilla Mamona, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2022
• And in many ways, the tariffs that that Trump imposed on China were counterproductive.
  — CBS News, 28 July 2021
• But that came to be seen as tainted by racial bias and counterproductive because drug use is treatable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• This is counterproductive as these complex products need a great deal of capital to cross the chasm.
  — Susan Akbarpour, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Adding stuff that will eat up even more of that precious resource seems counterproductive.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 July 2021
• This is just how the hackers like it and is proving to be a counterproductive decision in hindsight.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• Adding a stack of non-premium prospects could be counterproductive as Houston looks to turn the corner into the next phase of its rebuild.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 31 Jan. 2023
• Emefiele is known in Nigeria for his dogged defense of the naira, sometimes to counterproductive ends.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2021
• The result is constant guilt about our choices and that is counterproductive.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Still, experts agree that waiting to time the market can be counterproductive.
  — Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2023
• His father declined to be interviewed by JNS—as did several of his fellow residents, who belong to a tough generation and culture, in which discussing hardships and even traumas is often seen as pointless and even counterproductive.
  — Canaan Lidor, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
• This outcome suggests that combining the two might prove counterproductive to enhancing our brain functioning abilities.
  — Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024