Adjective : an inquisitive mind. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : thick curtains to frustrate inquisitives. From Dictionary.com.
For the rest, he treated his House in a very gentlemanly, uninquisitive way. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
She was always blissfully uninquisitive, which was an important aspect of her independence. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Before curiosity kills it, the cat learns more of the world than a hundred uninquisitive dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
Odom may be correct as far as our inarticulate and famously uninquisitive president is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Address: Blood for Face] Reference
This aversion to info-dumps might explain why the human characters are so uninquisitive--sometimes absurdly so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
They can change the rules on anyone, anytime, for reasons they only have to explain through a cowed and uninquisitive press. From Wordnik.com. [TUESDAY OPEN THREAD] Reference
The looks she cast here and there were uninquisitive glances from intense and intelligent eyes, but eyes that seemed looking for something else. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
The direr the need of information in the "Hills," and in all the East for that matter, the greater the wisdom, as a rule, of seeming uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [In The Time Of Light] Reference
Massie's coverage of this, if it can be called that, has been terrible: guesses (always wrong), morally flimsy, uninquisitive and lamentably light on reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Was it the light that did it? — the tender, the fading, the uninquisitive but searching light of evening that reveals depths in water and makes even the red brick bungalow radiant?. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
And if any man gives an entertainment, and hears afar a general, ill-suppressed, derisive titter, and sees all his guests hurrying toward one spot, I defy him to remain unmoved and uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
MexicoConnect is, in realty, today, a Lake Chapala phenomenon at present patronized by old farts glued to that sorry lake and uninquisitive regarding the inordinate surprises awaiting the curious explorer. From Wordnik.com. [Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip] Reference
Aided by an uninquisitive commercial media politicians have been able to confine the discussion about wellness affordability to antiquated, cryptic declarations reliant on the archaic system utilized now with only aesthetic changes. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT'S HAPPENED TO AMERICA ?] Reference
The present alone interested Denver, but she was careful to appear uninquisitive about the things she was dying to ask Beloved, for if she pressed too hard, she might lose the penny that the held-out palm wanted, and lose, therefore, the place beyond appetite. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved]
In this company, he seemed to sit around, waiting to have his feelings hurt, and there was no great love lost between him and Larry, the result of an animosity much older than my career, of which I understood nothing and about which I was singularly uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
East for that matter, the greater the wisdom, as a rule, of seeming uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
Mrs. Sedley was of so easy and uninquisitive a nature that she wasn't even jealous. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
She seldom saw Wallie, and she found her hostess tactful, kindly and uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Point] Reference
Mrs. Sedley was of so easy and uninquisitive a nature, that she wasnt even jealous. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Quite a Sentimental Chapter] Reference
Only among an uninquisitive people could so imperfect a theory have endured for over fourteen centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
Will this lead consumers to remain uninquisitive as to the structures of the bailout packages, and their lack of contractual arrangements?. From Wordnik.com. [MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory] Reference
According to some accounts the application for taxpayer money is a surprisingly uninquisitive two-page document that can be submitted online. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
The Muscovites are no great speculators; but I should not much rely on their uninquisitive disposition, if any of their ordinary motives to sedition should arise. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
The gray-blue eyes rested on him in a gaze meant to be uninquisitive and non-committal, but which, as a matter of fact, expressed something from which Strange turned his own glance away. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Olive] Reference
And if any man gives an entertainment, and hears afar a general, ill-suppressed, derisive titter, and sees all his guests hurrying towards one spot, I defy him to remain unmoved and uninquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
I walked along, musing and enchanted, by rows of sugar-maples, through the small and uninquisitive villages, and sometimes was pleased with the sight of a boat drawn up on a sand-bar, where there appeared no inhabitants to use it. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
Divine vice-regency wherever he found it; but, apart from this uninquisitive respect, he will claim to be reasonably patriotic, patriotically rational; habit encourages to practice one thing, but theory may induce to think another. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
In short order, Obama has plunged the nation into record debt, after a cynical campaign in which he (and the suddenly-uninquisitive media) ignored his own lack of credentials while criticizing the sitting president for excessive spending and debt. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Mrs. Sedley was of so easy and uninquisitive a nature that she wasn’t even jealous. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
“Well, I mean, all this easy, uninquisitive way men have of makin’ casual acquaintances is very fine and admirable and all that — but look how inconvenient it is!. From Wordnik.com. [The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club]
Or just uninquisitive?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The uninquisitive media. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » John Mark Reynolds on Sarah Palin] Reference
Don’t forget the uninquisitive media.davodQuote. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » John Mark Reynolds on Sarah Palin] Reference
Public schools prefer kids who are: passive, unassertive, quiet, uninquisitive, orderly, neat, and rule-following. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Accountability to Forecasts of Doom] Reference
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