uninstructive

The fault of the method is, that they do not instruct; so the breath is out of them before they are put aside; for the uninstructive are the humanly deficient: they remain with us like the tolerated old aristocracy, which may not govern, and is but socially seductive.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

The fault of the method is, that they do not instruct; so the breath is out of them before they are put aside; for the uninstructive are the humanly deficient: they remain with us like the tolerated old aristocracy, which may not govern, and is but socially seductive.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The fault of the method is, that they do not instruct; so the breath is out of them before they are put aside; for the uninstructive are the humanly deficient: they remain with us like the tolerated old aristocracy, which may not govern, and is but socially seductive.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

I think it is very instructive how many critical and uninstructive comments have been posted.

Romney praises Afghan surge, slams confusion about timeline 2009

And - could someone tell Piotr Stanczak that "Fitna" is somehow irrelevant or uninstructive.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

But to readers of any age, his sedulously uninstructive ironies and pointedly unpunished cruelties offered only this comfort: that someone else could know the scary and the strange, and make it, literally, funny as hell.

E Is For Edward, Whose Work Was So Strange 2008

Yet as I've noted here, such differences in ballot totals in the primary have proven uninstructive for the general election.

Sound Politics: The Weakest Issue of a Failing Institution 2006

I might perhaps have instanced in other modes of pleasure and pain, more simple than these; as the pain of hunger and thirst, and the pleasure of eating and drinking to remove them: the pain of teeth set on edge; the pleasure of music; pain from captious uninstructive wrangling, and the pleasure of rational conversation with a friend, or of well-directed study in the search and discovery of truth.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

ALLEN: And the problem is that violence is terribly uninstructive in America.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007 2007

ALLEN: And the problem is that violence is terribly uninstructive in America.

CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2007 2007