unedifying

The unedifying dispute about duty free is still in my mind.

In particular, their annual conferences can be an unedifying spectacle.

If that happens, this Gumbel case, after an unedifying beginning, may still do good.

New York has had its own unedifying moments in shaking the money tree for post-9/11 security and recovery.

It was heard loud and clear in the unedifying battles of the early eighties.

City Opera's stagings present this unedifying message for what it is.

This is the energy debate we should be having, rather than an unedifying slanging match.

The real world is bored with this unedifying spectacle.

Also many of the Lessons are quite unedifying.

The next day, back in Britain, the pictures, some of them quite unedifying, appeared in the newspapers, a number on the front pages.

Along with providing an unedifying case history of American politicking, it demonstrates how ambiguous television images can be.

But Aunt Louisa always felt it had been a very unedifying deathbed.

There is not even any general agreement on how to frame the question that this unedifying saga has posed as it nears its end.

One high-ranking official had called it, "an unedifying trade in young people that rips the heart out of clubs which try to develop players".

It's not just the imperialism of the technology but the virulence of the unedifying voice that's revealing.

It was an unedifying sight.

It's all in vain; not even a mural of heroic proportions can enlarge Ted's unedifying adventure.

To the Editor: In what must rank as one of the most unedifying, unintelligible (or unintelligent?)

The Presidential election of 1988 offered one of the most unedifying spectacles in the American political panorama.

Everything was most unedifying.

An unedifying display?

The civil war was an unedifying conflict, another in the rolling saga of peasant rebellions against decadent dynasties.

"Truly an unedifying sight," thought Mr. Topper, and yet he was fascinated by it.

How it must revolt you to confide an intimate and precious secret to a rabble that has just offered such an unedifying spectacle!