How To Use Unedifying In A Sentence

  • The 20 babes being absolute cows to each other is unedifying for all.
  • From the boardroom in his office he told me this year's player trading period was particularly unedifying.
  • He's wrong of course as he has been throughout his whole unedifying politico-religious career.
  • In the Middle East itself, the revolutionary experience of the mid-20th century has been equally unedifying, to say the least. The Lesson of the Arab Spring
  • It is, to say the least, an unedifying spectacle.
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  • So they convened a kangaroo court and sent him on his unedifying way with a flea in his ear from an outraged Emma. The Sun
  • An unedifying gallery of bit-part rogues, including the profoundly unlovable Frankie Fraser, keeps assuring us that Charlie was a gentleman who looked after his old mum, etc etc.
  • But at least the unedifying spectacle of comrades in Christ tearing strips off each other over gay sex will vanish from the headlines for a bit.
  • So they convened a kangaroo court and sent him on his unedifying way with a flea in his ear from an outraged Emma. The Sun
  • Here in Melbourne, listening to what's colloquially called, Drive Time Radio, is a singularly unedifying experience.
  • Nobody was going to waste their time spying on my nakedness; it's a singularly unedifying sight. GALILEE
  • Insurrection of Women, how foisonless, unedifying, undelightful; like small ale palled, like an effervescence that has effervesced! The French Revolution
  • Cultivating a pre-Raphaelite look at that age can only convey the impression of an unedifying private life. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • It was also responsible for one of the most unedifying episodes in modern politics, as Labour grandees sucked up to the label's founder, Alan McGee, in the hope that a little of Britpop's stardust would rub off.
  • Yet she used to lament that certain writers of the first class, who were capable of exalting virtue, and of putting vice out of countenance, too generally employed themselves in works of imagination only, upon subjects merely speculative, disinteresting and unedifying, from which no useful moral or example could be drawn. Clarissa Harlowe
  • It's about time this unedifying charade ended. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles.
  • Already we have been treated to the unedifying sight of ministers calling on preachers to pledge their support for the incumbent president.
  • The events at Somerset Park yesterday encapsulated the struggle for survival that Airdrie have been mired in for the past two years, and were every bit as unedifying.
  • In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not fair! isn't only unedifying, it's pitiful. Open Primaries - Another way for a party with money to buy off the electorate
  • It was ungallant, unedifying ... and utterly compelling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paradoxically, or is that hypocritically, the pursuit of political power as practised by individual politicians is highly unedifying, not to say unethical.
  • My next unedifying conclusion was that in order to make this informality credible I had to drop in without warning at the Deanery. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • When members of the general public - for lack of a more inclusive term, let's call them ‘voters’ - are dragooned into election politics, with or without their consent, the result is usually as unpredictable as it is unedifying.
  • England have qualified for the Euro 2004 championship finals, but it was a passage to sunny Portugal darkened by one of the most unedifying weeks in the game.
  • The M&S fight has been an unedifying spectacle.
  • Its public debate about the lessons from the crash has turned into an unedifying shouting match between liberal blame and conservative denial. How Britain Can Lead the World
  • My next unedifying conclusion was that in order to make this informality credible I had to drop in without warning at the Deanery. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • • The U.S. budget deficit: The unedifying and sometimes irrational political wrangling over our own budget deficit is more worrisome. Handicapping the Economic Recovery
  • Last week's unedifying "meowing" debate in Canberra demonstrated how easily Ms. Gillard can be distracted from promoting her government's legislative program. When Julia Gillard Went to Canberra
  • Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff.
  • Last night Adelaide viewers were faced with the unedifying sight of having their nightly TV news beamed in from Sydney.
  • Political soap operas are entertaining and unedifying in equal measure. No Quick Fixes for Areva
  • The sight of two pairs of badminton players trying to lose was unedifying. Times, Sunday Times
  • We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of two cabinet ministers fighting over a seat.
  • It is has been, and continues to be, an unedifying sight.
  • The second half, largely spent wellying the ball aimlessly into Wigan territory, was unedifying stuff, in which only Dzeko, Agüero and Milner offered any attacking invention at all and only Hart's fine save from McCarthy – City's magnificent keeper is being presented with the man-of-the-match bubbly as I type – stopped Wigan equalising. Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report
  • Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
  • But I care even more about the unedifying spectacle that followed.
  • The extremely unedifying combination of the episcopal gutlessness on display in DC and the bureaucratic contempt for the flock on display here has a number of people livid.
  • Squabbles over the garden fence can be unedifying, and the relationship between sporting neighbours is more prickly than most.
  • It was unedifying, unenlightening and uninteresting. Times, Sunday Times
  • That unedifying but intriguing little episode must have been round the Lab within minutes of its happening.
  • The current squabble is nothing new, but it could herald far-reaching change: The U.K. government has pledged to extricate itself from the unedifying annual spectacle by removing the role of the secretary of state from determining the levy scheme, and there is a sense that this represents an opportunity to remodel the levy with a viable commercial mechanism. Jockeying Over Horseracing Funding
  • We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of two cabinet ministers fighting over a seat.
  • The circus of the last few weeks has been unedifying.
  • It is unedifying for our elected representatives to greet a ruling with which they disagree by accusing individual judges of prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was in town to start directing a spectacularly unedifying documentary about a teenage girl who operated a pornographic webcam from her bedroom.
  • It is an unedifying, if dramatic, denouement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her face was red, fumes came from her head and she was muttering very strong and unedifying words under her breath that were peeling paint off of the walls.
  • Due to factors ranging from the unedifying squabble over the federal debt ceiling to Standard & Poor's August downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, the dollar hasn't been looking pretty either. Euro Remains Short of Friends
  • ‘I have been staggered by the response of the Highland community to this unedifying spectacle of greed,’ said Morrison.
  • In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains. Times, Sunday Times
  • The unedifying spectacle we were invited to witness on Saturday evening was nothing less than a live sacking. Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
  • What an unedifying spectacle we have before us.
  • So they convened a kangaroo court and sent him on his unedifying way with a flea in his ear from an outraged Emma. The Sun
  • So when he appeared outside the dressing room on Saturday afternoon sporting a glorious shiner it seemed there might be yet another unedifying tale of late-night revelry to tell.
  • The state always has been disputed territory in war and politics, but never more than it is now, in the final, cliffhanging days of a close-run but unedifying presidential campaign. Who'll Have The Last Laugh?
  • There is nothing new about England's social, economic and cultural decay, but the spectacle has of late become so unedifying as to be almost unendurable.

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