unsupportive

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Adj.1.unsupportive - not furnishing support or assistanceunsupportive - not furnishing support or assistance
negative - characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign"
supportive - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"
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And the victim has criticised the Church of England for its "cold and unsupportive" reaction to his ordeal.
Groping vicar avoids prison; priest touched student on flight to uk
I felt that their communications were cold and unsupportive. The communications sent to me felt like they came from a legal firm.
Vicar avoids jail for groping man on flight from US
Many cases go unaddressed because of the cultural stigma of reporting crimes-women, especially, fear possible bias in courts, unsupportive family dynamics, astronomical legal fees, and potential repercussions from their attackers.
Acid attack convicts deserve no mercy despite pardon: SC
A council report says there is limited awareness of the symptoms that women can suffer during the menopause, and that an unsupportive work environment can exacerbate these problems.
Council to offer extra menopause support
They haven't been unsupportive, but it's as if they're not sure how to be around me any more.
PARENTS SO CAGEY SINCE I'VE COME OUT; DEAR COLEEN; Britain's most straight-talking problem page
They haven't been unsupportive but it's as if they're not sure how to be around me any more.
PARENTS SO CAGEY SINCE I'VE COME OUT; THURSDAY Dear Coleen@dailyrecord.co.uk
He said that due to unsupportive financial policies for women, Pakistan has the lowest rate of female entrepreneurship in the world as women entrepreneurs accounted for only 1% in the country compared to 21% of male entrepreneurs.
ICCI for focusing on financial inclusion of women to improve economy
Research on individual differences in causal attributions about others' negative outcomes (attributional styles) corroborates Weiner's helping model, linking unsupportive attributional style (i.e., a tendency to explain others' negative outcomes with causes personally controllable by the victim) with harsh treatment of others (Higgins & Shaw, 1999; Lundquist, Higgins, & Prkachin, 2002).
An Individual Differences Measure of Attributions Affecting Helping Behavior
DIY SOS host Nick Knowles disagreed sharply with Holy Willoughby as he slammed theI'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Hereproduction team, branding them 'unsupportive' and saying that there was an adversarial 'us against them' atmosphere between the celebrities and the backstage crew.
Nick Knowles and Holly Willoughby clash over 'unsupportive' I'm A Celebrity crew; Holly tried to stand up for her I'm A Celeb Colleagues but Nick was having none of it
Advocate Sabahat Rizvi who also helped draft the Transgender Bill now an Act said that it was ironic how the State and its agencies were unsupportive of the community, considering that transgender persons were not involved in a single criminal case.
Transpersons speak up for their community
My family, though supportive of my single life, is very unsupportive of my becoming a single mom.
Family disapproves of her plan to adopt a child while single
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