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curious
adjective as in desiring knowledge, understanding
adjective as in very odd
Example Sentences
Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.
But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.
As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me.
I had, for a long time, been curious about the place where all this fantastic stuff was made.
He was way too ill to visit the set and all that, but was very curious about the film.
At last there appeared some probability of their accomplishing this, after a most curious and truly Mexican fashion.
He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.
Something within him wanted to go, something that was perhaps intellectually curious.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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