Verb (used with object), : religious paintings that edify the viewer. From Dictionary.com.
The tax wars have entered a rather unedifying stage. From Wordnik.com. [A matter of timing] Reference
You cannot, so you are reduced to unedifying mudslinging. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But enough of this unedifying scene, of which the Abbé. From Wordnik.com. [The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome] Reference
It is profoundly unedifying, but not the less characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Bradshaw's position is unedifying and poorly thought out and irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [A shaming episode] Reference
We all remember the unedifying descriptions of her itinerant priests that. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
It opens the door to complex and unedifying legal wrangles in civil courts. From Wordnik.com. [The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates] Reference
Inside he found a small and unedifying collection of paperback pornography. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
It's a strange, unedifying election season -- sullen, distraught, down and dirty. From Wordnik.com. [Rolling Thunder] Reference
Occult manifestations occurred side by side with rational, if unedifying, events. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
No, of course it doesn't matter much and witchunts are unedifying to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [The Drug Taking Witchhunt Must Stop] Reference
Unions are also needed to curb the unedifying "race to the bottom" among corporations. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Leviathan] Reference
Well, that was an unedifying end to what was a forgettable match, with memorable moments. From Wordnik.com. [World Cup 2010: Brazil v Ivory Coast – as it happened] Reference
The unedifying story of skullduggery now being revealed by Lord Mandelson, the former U.K. From Wordnik.com. [EU's Rocky Regulatory Road] Reference
South Africa did not need an unedifying squabble between politicians "who should know better". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It was an unedifying and dispiriting spectacle, given her regal progress over the past two weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Clijsters and Roger Federer leave US Open crowd in smiles] Reference
Voltaire's lively complaisance with all sorts of unworthy people is something worse than unedifying. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Using the S-word in a negative context threatens to doom America to a "fractious and unedifying debate.". From Wordnik.com. [We're Not All Socialists] Reference
And at least 90% of the work that even the highest tech companies do is of this second, unedifying kind. From Wordnik.com. [Mind the Gap] Reference
And then there are the pots and pots of taxpayers 'cash that have been used to reach this unedifying position. From Wordnik.com. [A bad deal] Reference
There's plenty in today's papers about the election of the new Speaker - much of it unedifying, if unsurprising. From Wordnik.com. [Who would you choose as Speaker?] Reference
Increasingly, you doubt that there'll be any sort of closure on this unedifying business before the next election. From Wordnik.com. [Tax-free troubles] Reference
The unedifying response to the Wall Street crisis shows that the biggest change we need to make is in our politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall of America, Inc.] Reference
S, may face the unedifying prospect of seeing growth stutter as he tries to impose a clearer vision on the company. From Wordnik.com. [Too Big to Fail…or to Succeed for Long?] Reference
Slits into the soul; through which you peered, as in a twopenny peepshow, at clandestine and unedifying happenings. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
All I can do is to prevent unedifying scenes between us by showing you such courtesy and consideration as is possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
In practice the first phases of both consist mostly of unedifying schleps, and in (b) the second phase is less secure. From Wordnik.com. [The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn] Reference
Nobody who picks up a biography of Judy Garland in the first place should turn around and complain that it's unedifying. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong End Of The Rainbow] Reference
Then there were last week's European Parliament elections -- desultory, as always, with low turnout and unedifying debate. From Wordnik.com. [EUROPE'S SLOW TRIUMPH] Reference
Let us, however, not conceal from ourselves the fact that this first impression is for the most part extremely unedifying. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
Calculated attempts at self-preservation are rarely a good look and the whole unedifying charade is tarnishing reputations. From Wordnik.com. [Trial by technology sows seeds of doubt and distrust] Reference
In "Wild Youth" Sir GILBERT PARKER gives us the unedifying picture of a horrible old man married to a young and pretty girl. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919] Reference
Yep, whichever way you look at it, their spinelessness is unedifying - not to mention bad for their own party and the country. From Wordnik.com. [What's going on in the minds of Miliband and Johnson?] Reference
The unedifying clash will have served to remind ITV executives that the quick-witted Corden is not always a safe pair of hands. From Wordnik.com. [James Corden plans World Cup domination on TV and in the charts] Reference
Europe has become bogged down in endless, unedifying votes and fights over its constitution (another round of which is now underway). From Wordnik.com. [The Accidental Head of Europe] Reference
It's an unedifying story given a certain sheen by Floria Sigismondi, an experienced director of pop videos, whose first feature this is. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaways] Reference
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