unconducive
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unconducive (comparative more unconducive, superlative most unconducive)
- Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.
- 1898 April 19, “Soft Drinks in Black Bottles”, in Daily Mail and Empire, Canada, retrieved 20 Aug. 2010, page 2:
- [A]nd anyone who knows the stimulating effect of that beverage is aware that it could not fail to be unconducive to order.
- 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
- About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. […] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
- 1964 October 28, Robert C. Ruark, “Stupid Commerce in Busing School Kids”, in Spartanburg Herald, USA, retrieved 20 Aug. 2010, page 4:
- Harlem is such a place as is full of tension unconducive to the best interest of education.
- 2008 June 11, “Indonesia's Truba Alam delays dollar bond sale”, in reuters.com, UK, retrieved 20 Aug. 2010:
- "Because of the unconducive market conditions, we will delay the dollar bond plan."
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not likely to produce an outcome
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