Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; uninterested.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not curious; careless; negligent; indifferent.
- Not curious or striking; deficient in interest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
interest orcuriosity ;uninterested . - adjective
apathetic orindifferent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity
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Examples
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It is why Democrats actually pass plicies that make sense, and it is also why Democrats get so tired of talking to conservatives who are so freakin incurious that they will accept whatever their "daddies" at fux and talk radio tell them, even when it contradicts what they so heartily "believed" the day before.
White House's top health care spokeswoman resigning post 2010
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That you remain incurious enough, as well as apathetic enough, to avoid doing the research, that’s your issue, notmine.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010
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The problem is that they are ignorant and incurious, which is an entirely different thing.
Think Progress » Lamar Alexander Won’t Rule Out Using Reconciliation To Repeal Health Care Reform 2010
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Until George Bush Jr. became president, the word "incurious" was seldom linked with American Diplomacy.
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Until George Bush Jr. became president, the word "incurious" was seldom linked with American Diplomacy.
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Until George Bush Jr. became president, the word "incurious" was seldom linked with American Diplomacy.
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Palin seems kind of incurious about anything out of a very narrow range.
Tonight's Her Night! Steven Barnes 2008
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This is the price we pay for having a president who is "incurious" about history.
May 2004 2004
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Personally: I think domestically Carter was pretty damned inept, but I even recently heard Pat Buchanan give Carter kudos in regards to what he did in the Middle East, so to dismiss his views without actually knowing them seems a bit "incurious" at the least.
"Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information..." Ann Althouse 2006
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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.
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