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Example sentences for: counterproductive

How can you use “counterproductive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

To go on using in its former sense a word whose meaning has changed is counterproductive.
And I believe it's very helpful to have terms to distinguish the tools that you find useful from the ones you feel are counterproductive or downright pernicious.
Policy-makers will be weaned from their current unhealthy addiction to ever-higher levels of intellectual property rights as the only instrument to raise R&D levels, a path that has increasingly reached diminishing returns or become counterproductive.
What is “counterproductive” is the notion that speakers of a language have to recognize semantic change: they don't “recognize” it, they create it.
Madison Avenue propaganda is counterproductive.