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’re skimmed over, but not in a manner that feels reluctant or incurious.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

It’s incurious about its stomping creatures and barely invested in the humans either, tasking Johansson and most of the cast to play fairly similar shades of hardy and determined.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

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