| 词汇 | unedifying |
| 释义 | unedifying adjective formaluk /ʌnˈed.ɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/ us /ʌnˈed.ə.faɪ.ɪŋ/ unpleasant and causing people to feel no respect: 令人不快的；丢脸的 We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of Congressmen fighting like children.我们目睹了议员像孩子们一样打架的丢脸场景。 Opposite edifyinghumorous or formal Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness not be all fun and gamesidiom noxiously objectionable objectionably odious unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable Examples of unedifyingunedifying This was an unedifying postscript to the voyage. Of course, the motivations of pilgrims are various, and sometimes rather unedifying. We had the unedifying sight of pile upon pile of rubbish towering in the city centre streets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing more unedifying than walking past an office building and seeing a group of people outside on the doorstep smoking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a decent visitor he would not like that, and we do not like to see it because it is an unedifying spectacle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would think that a radical departure would be disastrous to education, damaging to the public interest, and probably unedifying for religion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I find it unedifying and take no joy in it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been the unedifying sight of policies being personalised and personalities relentlessly vying with one another for the popular limelight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I found it unedifying that countries should queue up to make extradition requests in this way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was a highly unethical and unedifying little device, providing a further instance of public confidence being gravely undermined. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For some time they have been locked in a rather unedifying, old-fashioned trade war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, does not business currently conducted produce the somewhat unedifying situation whereby government can and do change the proposed date to suit their own purposes? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he now move on from this unedifying knockabout and answer some of the questions that were asked? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The procedure does little to enhance democracy and it is an unedifying and indeed incomprehensible spectacle for citizens who are following our work. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If anyone ever inquired into some of our decisions, the results would doubtless be somewhat unedifying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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