How to Use incurious in a Sentence

incurious

adjective
  • She is remarkably incurious about the natural world.
  • Paul is just emerging from the incurious phase of childhood and perhaps for the first time is receptive to hearing about the pain of the past.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • For its part, the office staff found him impatient and incurious.
    Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • This isn’t because this laughably incurious man is now the 45th president of the United States.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Doctors working with transplant patients have noticed that many of them tend to be incurious about the lives of the people whose hearts beat in their chest, or the circumstances of their deaths.
    oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • But there was always another incurious investor, afraid of missing out on the next Amazon or Uber, who was ready to buy into the myth.
    Washington Post, 22 July 2021
  • But a brand-new war run by this corrupt, incurious president, that is the ultimate fear.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors.
    Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But Berger’s account remains incurious about his motives, the context that produced him and his rage, and the policies that enabled him.
    Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Joel and his choir buddy Fred (Hill), a professor at the local agriculture college, aren’t incurious about the larger world the way Tricia is.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Both stories are told from the point of view of the male narrators, and the solipsistic, incurious treatment of the female characters is remarkable.
    Adrian Tomine, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure.
    Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Trump is hardly the first dishonest President, the first incurious President, the first liar.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
  • We are now led by a man who is fundamentally incurious about the world and dismissive of things that do not involve him personally.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 23 May 2017
  • But to take her and the Kremlin's word for it is pretty intellectually incurious and is asking us all to grant a pretty questionable premise.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
  • These false projections are stupid, incurious, and immoral.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Curious about race and IQ, incurious about race Harris and Murray’s conversation stretches more than two hours.
    Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Trump is in the style of our moment: a man from nowhere, with no stake in the system, ignorant of history, incurious about our political habits and traditions, but happy to bash and to break old and precious things in exchange for a little attention.
    Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • Is Trump something other than a vainglorious, incurious and insecure businessman who now has the support of members of Congress who once reviled him?
    John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Fake Accounts suffers from too little of that something else: the narrator’s consciousness is a hermetic one, private about its actual griefs and incurious about those felt by others.
    Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The man is a complete dolt who is pathologically incurious about the world and does not care a whit about anyone but himself, and his brand of shameless, emboldened stupidity has conquered the Republican Party.
    Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The fact is, this is part of the media’s role: to expose anything from a public official’s incurious ignorance to his malicious misrepresentations to his polarizing polemics to his flat-out lies.
    Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
  • The memoir, which portrays Donald Trump as a liar and narcissist who was coddled by an overbearing father, an incurious press and reckless banks, went on sale in July as planned after a judge refused to issue an injunction against its release.
    Erik Larson, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • For Greenwald, the Carlson story has become another example of the perfidy of an incurious media unwilling to question state power.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 2 July 2021
  • It’s also strikingly incurious about how Emily is often a lousy crook who repeatedly bungles Youcef’s safety rules.
    Amy Nicholson, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Only a person fundamentally incurious about world cinema — which is to say, a person who has no real business attending Cannes in the first place — would argue otherwise.
    Justin Chang, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
  • The author himself seems delighted but incurious about the situation.
    Charles Finch, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • An incurious press corps seems largely uninterested in the appropriate size of the federal workforce.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • This is especially the case in Farrell’s wrenchingly funny-sad performance as this sweet-natured, intellectually incurious man is forced for what seems the first time to think about his limitations.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022
  • On that front, Wolff’s book offers a worrisome portrait of an incurious president with a short attention span, a volatile chief executive who rails against his critics and who at moments appears isolated by his frustrations.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018

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