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- adjective Not easy to use or learn to use.
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Examples
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Air Asia's hub, is divided into two opposite segments, and the discount airlines all take off from the oldest, most run-down, and user-unfriendly of the terminals (a trip from LCCT to the main KLIA terminals takes 20-30 min by taxi and costs about $18).
Kevin Richberg: Discount Airlines: When In Doubt, Wear Your Clothes Kevin Richberg 2012
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Dead-tree media's salvation, it seems, lies in hobbling social media and making search engines as user-unfriendly as possible.
Michael Gonzalez: The FTC Confuses Newspapers With Journalism as it Seeks New Media Tax 2010
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After the VMFA first opened in 1936, it was so user-unfriendly that wags called it "Fort Art," which is a shame because it grew to have one of the best Faberge and modern art collections around.
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He's a rarity in the news biz these days: someone who understands the dense user-unfriendly NASA-speak and can interpret it for a more general audience without insulting its intelligence.
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As far as mass appeal goes, the key elements of "jazz" "New Orleans" and "dealing with Katrina" are about as user-unfriendly as they can get.
Weekend round up 2010
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Dead-tree media's salvation, it seems, lies in hobbling social media and making search engines as user-unfriendly as possible.
Michael Gonzalez: The FTC Confuses Newspapers With Journalism as it Seeks New Media Tax Michael Gonzalez 2010
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I tried to go back and look, but I find the archives too user-unfriendly.
Hillary Privately Urging Her Pledged Delegates To Vote For Obama At Convention 2009
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He said at present everything seems user-unfriendly and adhocism, inefficiency and ill will seems to be ruling the roost.
Chitrali passengers strongly condemned NHA inhuman policy 2009
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Even the most subtle mistakes? like user-unfriendly technology? can kill off an otherwise promising product.
The Auto Industry?s Comeback Finbarr O?Neill 2009
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Most point accurately to cumbersome, user-unfriendly, incomprehensible forms, and a demeaning as well as time-consuming process.
Deane Waldman: Is There Personal Responsibility in Healthcare? 2009
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