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Meanings of incurious in English

Showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity.

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Usage of incurious in English
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Their progress was followed by the blank, incurious eyes of second infancy.
Brave New World
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The children did not look with incurious eyes upon this stirring scene.
Poems
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He paused for a moment, then asked in a quiet, incurious tone-
Tales of Unrest
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The passengers turned an incurious, half-resentful stare upon him, and then repented.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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One or two incurious tradesmen looked idly up as I passed by.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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He met me with an incurious stare, and began to doze again.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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Being neither incurious nor incompetent observers, their delineations were graphic and vivid.
The First White Man of the West / Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'...
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Darius was incurious by nature, though he had brief fevers of curiosity.
Clayhanger
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Women, in general, are incurious about anything mechanical - incurious and intolerant.
The new yorker
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She looked at him with wide, incurious eyes, recognizing him without surprise.
The Keeper of the Door
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Mrs Verloc's fine, incurious eyes lighted up with a flash of abhorrence.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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Passionate ideologues are incurious by nature and have no time for obstructive details.
The Guardian
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Her general popularity, perhaps, made the world incurious about the subject.
The Call of the Blood
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It's baffling how incurious The Undoing is about the city it's set in.
News.com.au
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And the men would become suddenly incurious, after the manner of their kind.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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Then he remembered the passionate generosity latent under that incurious calm.
The Age of Innocence
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