incurious

Example Sentences

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Again and again, he witnesses painful silences in public-school classrooms full of incurious young people who do not read and do not know anything about anything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

They exist under the guise of bringing us together, but only make us more greedy, isolated and incurious — not to mention broke.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

In an instant, his beach route comment did me a huge kindness and made me feel like an incurious boor.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

The police, in the meantime, are oddly incurious about the voluminous records of a private investigator who they know hacked phones for News of the World.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

This nurse’s was a pretty bird, just as neat and incurious as Sister Clara's dog, and the doctor’s was a large heavy moth.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman