The situation was unedifying and nonsensical, but the Queen was not yet twenty, and Lord Melbourne had for once failed to teach a prudent lesson.
A situation so precarious and so unedifying was sure to lead to strange results in the relations of parties and leaders.
But it should not be inferred from these unedifying reflections that Lord Randolph Churchill in his declarations against the re-enactment of the Crimes Act in 1885 was animated solely by a hard desire to effect a political combination.
In 1335 Whittlesea was the scene of a mostunedifying conflict between the Abbeys of Ramsey and Ely.
On the other hand, we have a good deal of information, of a somewhat unedifying nature, in regard to her private life.
Here is the unedifying spectacle of an erudite scholar using his intellectual powers to make out a case for a Faith built upon foundations which he has himself destroyed.
If a puzzled truth-seeker tried to take a middle course, he would have to believe that black and white were the same colour, and his belief would degenerate into an exceedingly unedifying grey.
In the pauses of this edifying occupation he roused himself to an unedifying activity; that is to say, he scolded all the servants, without assigning any grounds for his displeasure.
What ensued was of a very unedifying character: from being simply a state of contented indifference, the marriage became a decidedly irksome bond.
If Lessing's life were sketched in the spirit in which orthodoxy has handled that of Bahrdt, it could be made unedifying enough.
It was probably his imputation of perjury to Christian rulers in particular that earned for Marlowe the malignant resentment which inspired the various edifying comments published after his unedifying death.
Scandals accumulated around him like leaves on a tree, and most of them, for example, those connected with Sellis and the birth of Colonel Garth, are too unedifying to be discussed.
The lecture room of a scholastic doctor was sometimes under the same roof with establishments of a very different and peculiarly unedifying order.
If, on the other hand, those jests were given and taken in good humour, the whole relation between the pair degenerates into the unedifying complicity of a debauched old chaplain and a witty and dissolute young scholar.
Indeed it is from a purely religious motive that I come, as well as to give them the benefit of a frail, but not, I would hope, altogether unedifying example.
It shows me you are not going to run away to a neutral country and present the unedifying spectacle of a mangy little British lion at the mercy of a menagerie of healthy hyenas and such-like inferior though truculent beasties.
He would wipe out at one stroke the whole of his unedifying history.
She was alone in a strange, unedifying town; in a strange, vast, commonplace hotel.
On the morrow he heard, to his relief, that Oliver had returned to London with the unedifying Chipmunk.
The cylinders usually gyrate with records of fatuous music-hall songs, unedifying coster-airs and farcical speeches.
Such unedifying farce has nothing to do with history, which is a serious, instructive, and all-embracing study.
The lecture-room of a scholastic doctor was sometimes under the same roof with establishments of a very different and peculiarly unedifying order.
All these substantial we let go, that we may get hold of some empty unedifying notions.
From such unedifying pursuits our church, in her articles, dissuades even her riper members; how much more then must she, in her elementary instructions, avoid exciting a taste for them in the tender minds of her catechumens.
You beheld me to-night in the process of trying--an unedifying sight for Madame la Comtesse de Verneuil.
The history of this Hsien-pi dynasty, as of its predecessor, is an unedifying succession of intrigues; no serious effort was made to build up a true state.
But there was generally one preservative at least to keep the rite from degenerating into a mere unedifying ceremony.
But these unedifyingmoralities did not occupy him long.
Men whose lives are morally unedifying might doubt it, so he said to himself, but merely because they have never experienced it at all.
Lato took part in the unedifying pastime, and at first fortune befriended him; then he lost.
Nearly a year has passed since that unedifying conversation with my uncle.
Lord Palmerston's words to the Queen about Mr. Gladstone are a curiously unedifying specimen of loyalty to a colleague.
The months that followed make an unedifying close to five glorious years of progress and reform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unedifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
