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Meanings of unedifying in English

Spanish
no edificante

Not edifying.

no edificante
Usage of unedifying in English
1
The consequences of the alternative, dumping him, are too unedifying to consider.
The Guardian
2
I'm glad you didn't amuse her with that unedifying bit of fiction.'
The Odd Women
3
This unedifying pressure from aggressive Europeans seemed for a time to awaken China.
Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for P...
4
Wise words, as García seeks to play down this unedifying affair.
The Guardian
5
His political pitch is an unedifying pitch of the shallow and the alarming.
The Guardian
6
If that was all fairly clear-cut, although thoroughly unedifying, things then got murky.
The Guardian
7
Moreover, served in a large shallow bowl, porridge looks like an unedifying splat.
The Guardian
8
Why is no one at Manchester United stopping this unedifying spectacle?
The Guardian
9
An unedifying story, reflecting little or no credit on Russia's old ruling class.
The Irish Times
10
His end may have been unedifying; it must at least have been very pitiful.
Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of ...
11
However, the promising toppings cling together in big, unedifying lumps.
The Guardian
12
Gamesmanship over rankings is unedifying, but does it matter much?
Reuters
13
But the transplanting to Connacht had been an unedifying sight.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
14
There is something profoundly unsettling and unedifying at the heart of the contemporary information economy.
The Guardian
15
In the course of this process he fell into adventures, some of them, perhaps, unedifying.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
16
You can see that Mr Biden was complicit, to an extent, in the unedifying spectacle.
News.com.au
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