Neither, in general, are women overcurious to enquire whether the strength of character.

He stopped briefly at a paddock containing some decidedly obstreperous llamas, chortling to himself as they spat at some overcurious children.

Two men on listening-post had been shot; and so had an overcurious sentry who peeped just an inch too far above a parapet.

Never discourteous and often too sympathetic, he was so overcurious as to be what sailors describe as "In everybody's mess and nobody's watch."