That sort of bush league unhelpfulness was the way things were in the bad old days before programmers wised up.

He was frustrated by her unhelpfulness, but also attracted to her, and they embarked on an affair.

Another popular excuse for unhelpfulness is to take refuge in the Data Protection Act.

Tongans are renowned for their unhelpfulness, unless they know you, in which case they make you one of the family.

In the first season, Farnsworth would excuse his unhelpfulness by saying that he was "already in his pajamas".

You can complain at the long queues at the cloakroom, the poor state of the toilets and the unhelpfulness of the staff.

O vile unhelpfulness of lickspittle uncles!

And one recalls that people not well-disposed to Mr Byrne accused him of a measure of unhelpfulness.

One Parisian reporter used to insinuating himself into tragedy steeled himself for the familiar anger and sarcastic unhelpfulness.

Helpfulness vs. unhelpfulness (C3)

Dushyant and his unhelpfulness: Dushyant decides to stay at the Sarabhai residence which causes trouble for everyone else.

But the problem with Ward's comments wasn't just their unhelpfulness, inaccuracy or racially inflected nastiness, it was their appalling timing.

Where unhelpfulness, officiousness, lack of sympathy and all-round obstructiveness are the norm, verbal aggression is an understandable and, in some instances, necessary response.

The Oracle had advised Stile to "Know thyself"and despite the seeming unhelpfulness of it, that had indeed been the key to his future.

His work would be undone by the unhelpfulness of the other branch managers and the fecklessness of the London branch manager Canigiani.

When asked in a manner to do something aside of asking the computer, she would shrug and remain obstinate in her unhelpfulness and ultimately cough in the customer's face.

Nevertheless, the occasional problems of delay, inefficiency or incompetence, overcharging, unhelpfulness, inconsiderateness and lack of communication were felt to be of sufficient concern to demand redress by the professions.

You weren’t allowed to come to private arrangements about childmindering with another parent, which killed the trade stone dead, and they fiddled around with all kinds of unhelpfulness in regard to nursery schooling.

Her parents, she writes, were doctrinaire to the point of unhelpfulness, as when they urged her to seek out black playmates even when those playmates didn't want to play with her.

So far Syria seems to be testing the tactics of hindrance and unhelpfulness that Iran has so finely honed,' U.S. Ambassador Gregory Schulte told the closed-door gathering.

When individual groups forget that they are part of a wider team co-operative opportunities pass unseen; there is duplication of effort: time and money are wasted: in extreme cases there is deliberate unhelpfulness.

We hope that it will not adopt the tactics of hindrance and unhelpfulness that Tehran has so finely honed and that remain so evident in the (IAEA's) latest report,' he said.

What had been recognized was a kind of mismatch between the very different elements in the work of services for families and children, and the unhelpfulness of the legalistic and adversarial approach to most of this work.

These situations often can be sorted by an employee updating the information, however when this cannot be done easily, the "Computer Says No" attitude can be viewed to become prevalent when there is unhelpfulness as a result.

Asterix eventually beats them at their own game by asking for an imaginary permit, A 39 supposedly required by a new decree, "circular B 65", making the staff victims of their own unhelpfulness and sending the place into disarray.