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adj. - Not asking questions adj. - Deficient in curiosity.

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Usage examples (28)
  • Adjective : an inquiring mind. ,an inquiring reporter. ,He looked at his father with inquiring eyes
  • The tranquil indifference and uninquiring eye with which they surveyed our works of art have often, in my hearing, been stigmatized as proofs of stupidity, and want of...
  • He who desires properly to appreciate the profound wisdom of the institution of which he is the disciple, must not be content, with uninquiring credulity, to accept all...
  • Did any parish officer, indeed, turn restive, and decline to pay a Deg, he soon found himself summoned before a magistrate, and such pleas of sickness, want of work, and poor...
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