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

The majority of the townsfolk that Honey encounters are such incurious mouth-breathers that the humor can feel hostile.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 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

The Orgota seemed not an unfriendly people, but incurious; they were colorless, steady, subdued.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin