Adjective : an inquiring mind. ,an inquiring reporter. ,He looked at his father with inquiring eyes. From Dictionary.com.
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 reflection. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
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 the traditions that are imparted to him as veritable histories; nor yet, with unphilosophic incredulity, to reject them in a mass, as fabulous inventions. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
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 earnings brought up, that he most likely got a sharp rebuke from the benevolent but uninquiring magistrate, and acquired a character for hard-heartedness that stuck to him. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
But it took only a few days for me to find that here I was never to be stared at, wondered at, nor questioned; and that, proffering my request under such conditions, I was met by instant hospitality, and a grave, uninquiring courtesy unsurpassed and not always equalled in the best society, and I seemed to evoke a swift tenderness that was almost compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Charlotte's, in being reverential and uninquiring. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
His employer glanced at him with uninquiring eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Copper Streak Trail] Reference
The open, uninquiring system, still existing on the. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
His blue eyes were clear and shallow, friendly, uninquiring. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
It is precisely why my arguments might seem plausible to an uninquiring editor, journalist or reader. From Wordnik.com. [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference
For loungers of a steadily uninquiring order however there are plenty of amusements of a lighter sort. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
Her look was grave, straight, uninquiring, soon accurately perusing; an arrow of Artemis for penetration. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Her attitude of uninquiring acquiescence had been cultivated by her mother, and it is wonderful what a dominant influence from early babyhood can do. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
Victor tapped at the door; he stepped into the room, wearing his evening white flower over a more open white waistcoat; and she was composed and uninquiring. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, uninquiring belief that they were “refined,” and that the country girls, who “worked out,” were not. From Wordnik.com. [My Ántonia] Reference
To his uninquiring mind all was as it should be with her; she was at home again, although strangely quiet and very sweet, and her small world was at peace with her. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Wise Man] Reference
For my part, when doors are closed I try not their locks; and I attribute my perfect equanimity, health even, to an uninquiring acceptation of the fact that they are closed to me. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
If Cressida brushed back his hair or touched his hand, he looked up long enough to give her a smile of utter adoration, naive and uninquiring, as if he were smiling at a dream or a miracle. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
The reader comprehends that Uthwart was come where the genius loci was a strong one, with a claim to mould all who enter it to a perfect, uninquiring, willing or unwilling, conformity to itself. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
At the risk of becoming tedious to uninquiring readers, we will make a brief extract from Hunt's "Merchants 'Magazine" of 1854, as given in a foot-note in Maury's "Physical Geography of the Sea.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean and its Wonders] Reference
That gentleman began to feel unhappy as there was no longer round him a crowd of listening ladies sufficient to screen from his now uninquiring eyes the delinquencies of the more eager of the sinners. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
For we have so associated our own being with the appearances of outward things, that we attribute to them, with an uninquiring faith, the very feelings and the very thoughts, of which we have chosen to make them emblems. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
There is the impulsive, uninquiring charity that makes the trade of the skilful begging-letter writer a lucrative profession, and makes men and women who are rich, benevolent and weak, the habitual prey of greedy impostors. From Wordnik.com. [The Map of Life Conduct and Character] Reference
And most voters have uninquiring minds. From Wordnik.com. [McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!] Reference
I really envy uninquiring noddies. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference
Our uninquiring corpses lie more low. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
And keeps, in uninquiring trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Passion usually makes men changeable, so sometimes does craft: hence the mistake of the uninquiring or the shallow; and hence while ------ writes, and ------ compiles, will the characters of great men be transmitted to posterity misstated and belied. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
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