Strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That you remain incurious enough, as well as apathetic enough, to avoid doing the research, that’s your issue, notmine. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)] Reference
Palin seems kind of incurious about anything out of a very narrow range. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight's Her Night!] Reference
This is the price we pay for having a president who is "incurious" about history. From Wordnik.com. [May 2004] Reference
One by one, the men stepped out from under the trees to stare at me with a kind of incurious patience, as if to see what I might do. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Interesting that you apply the word "incurious", for TAO was praised to the skies for his. From Wordnik.com. [QandO] Reference
Wouldn't be a Boston Globe-Democrat piece unless there was at least one worn-out MoveOn Talking Point ( "incurious") in the lead graph. From Wordnik.com. [The Minority Report -] Reference
I'm not so certain about the incurious bit though. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Eliot stared at the man with blank, incurious eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Foolish sure is Gallus, an o'er-incurious husband; 5. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
She comprehends results, but is incurious as to causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
About his ex-wife we are indifferent, incurious, uninterested. From Wordnik.com. [Eat Pray Love] Reference
As to Mein Kampf, you are profoundly and contentedly incurious. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Experience has taught us to be incurious and wait for them to pass. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Drew with the same incurious glance which held nothing of humankind. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
I mean it's basically saying he's an inattentive, incurious president. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2004] Reference
We are, if we are not damnably incurious, splendidly the better for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry] Reference
In these days of "hobgoblin lore," it may not be incurious to add, that. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828] Reference
It is boorishly incurious to do so, it is morally obtuse in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
No attendant there either, just patient Lot 92 turning an incurious gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Knockdown]
One thing only he heard which the wisely incurious reader will care to know. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
Maybe he's not the incurious, isolated simpleton the press makes him out to be. From Wordnik.com. [No, He Is Not the Paris Hilton of U.S. Presidents] Reference
But his description of an incurious, scripted president is the most interesting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2004] Reference
Ducie was incurious, or appeared to be so; he saw and heard, and asked no questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
One was grey, the other was young; but each had the same pale, incurious air of detachment. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
GAROFALO: No, I would just say that she ` s an intellectually incurious person with charisma. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2009] Reference
But no, there was no need for alarm, the Frenchwoman passed her with a brief, incurious glance. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
He got up and quietly strolled about the room, examining the bookcases with incurious interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Campion diagnosed the symptoms immediately and remained deliberately and irritatingly incurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Mr Campion]
But maybe the Allimir were as incurious as they were passive — Ivradan didn't ask questions, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
She soon appeared -- cold, passive, incurious, yet beneath this I could see the confined struggle of passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She was a strange vessel, sailing in from beyond their ken, and her pilot was almost as novel, yet they were incurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
Squatting down, all huddled-up in her blanket, she peered at them with the incurious, but all-seeing stare of her tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
The first time we were at Bahia, I could not even learn where it was, so incurious are my countrymen here about what brings no profit. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Mac and I were by no means reluctant to humor the lad, for we were not incurious respecting the picture, and we accompanied him forthwith. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
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