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单词 unedifying
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Definition of unedifying in English:

unedifying

adjectiveʌnˈɛdɪfʌɪɪŋˌənˈɛdəˌfaɪɪŋ
  • (especially of an event taking place in public) distasteful; unpleasant.

    (尤指公共场合发生的事件)丢人的;有辱人格的

    the unedifying sight of the two leaders screeching conflicting proposals

    两位领导人公开叫嚷对立提案的丢人景象。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Paradoxically, or is that hypocritically, the pursuit of political power as practised by individual politicians is highly unedifying, not to say unethical.
    • What an unedifying spectacle we have before us.
    • The M&S fight has been an unedifying spectacle.
    • Already we have been treated to the unedifying sight of ministers calling on preachers to pledge their support for the incumbent president.
    • It is has been, and continues to be, an unedifying sight.
    • Last night Adelaide viewers were faced with the unedifying sight of having their nightly TV news beamed in from Sydney.
    • 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.
    • ‘I have been staggered by the response of the Highland community to this unedifying spectacle of greed,’ said Morrison.
    • 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.
    • Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles.
    • But I care even more about the unedifying spectacle that followed.
    • Squabbles over the garden fence can be unedifying, and the relationship between sporting neighbours is more prickly than most.
    • The circus of the last few weeks has been unedifying.
    • Here in Melbourne, listening to what's colloquially called, Drive Time Radio, is a singularly unedifying experience.
    • He's wrong of course as he has been throughout his whole unedifying politico-religious career.
    • It is, to say the least, an unedifying spectacle.
    • 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.
    • From the boardroom in his office he told me this year's player trading period was particularly unedifying.

Derivatives

  • unedifyingly

  • adverb
    • What's more, she looked like a living nightmare for white middle-class boys who want their pint-sized girl pop stars flaunting their booties rather than swathing them unedifyingly in trackie bottoms.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I begin at the foot of the column and toil my way up the page to find each story unedifyingly summarized in inch-high type.
      • In the 21st century, photography is often unedifyingly in cahoots with fame: a visual blandishment for the celebrity, a feeble sop for the rest of us.
      • Apparently there are those who, somewhat unedifyingly, wolf down jars of marmite in an attempt to ward the blighters off.
      • It was also at the centre of the squabbles over change in the leadership with mavericks in the party unedifyingly shooting their mouth off about gerontocracy in the party.

Definition of unedifying in US English:

unedifying

adjectiveˌənˈedəˌfīiNGˌənˈɛdəˌfaɪɪŋ
  • (especially of an event taking place in public) distasteful; unpleasant.

    (尤指公共场合发生的事件)丢人的;有辱人格的

    the unedifying sight of the two leaders screeching conflicting proposals

    两位领导人公开叫嚷对立提案的丢人景象。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The M&S fight has been an unedifying spectacle.
    • Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles.
    • He's wrong of course as he has been throughout his whole unedifying politico-religious career.
    • It is has been, and continues to be, an unedifying sight.
    • Paradoxically, or is that hypocritically, the pursuit of political power as practised by individual politicians is highly unedifying, not to say unethical.
    • 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.
    • What an unedifying spectacle we have before us.
    • 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.
    • But I care even more about the unedifying spectacle that followed.
    • Last night Adelaide viewers were faced with the unedifying sight of having their nightly TV news beamed in from Sydney.
    • ‘I have been staggered by the response of the Highland community to this unedifying spectacle of greed,’ said Morrison.
    • Here in Melbourne, listening to what's colloquially called, Drive Time Radio, is a singularly unedifying experience.
    • 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.
    • Already we have been treated to the unedifying sight of ministers calling on preachers to pledge their support for the incumbent president.
    • It is, to say the least, an unedifying spectacle.
    • The circus of the last few weeks has been unedifying.
    • From the boardroom in his office he told me this year's player trading period was particularly unedifying.
    • Squabbles over the garden fence can be unedifying, and the relationship between sporting neighbours is more prickly than most.
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