edify
verb (used with object)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift.
unedified
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a word derived from
edify.
Example Sentences
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Those of Giamatti's countrymen who love baseball found themselves massively unedified by the collision of venalities that brought on the strike.
From Time Magazine Archive
The words which passed between Pauline Marrabel and her host at the railway station were words which the whole world might have heard and remained unedified.
From The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
No arguments, no logic, were discoverable; but there were plenty of amusing illustrations, a good deal that might better have been left out, and the audience was highly amused though wholly unedified.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Ernest Thompson Seton
Where?' asked the colonel, with a very unedified expression.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
