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incurious

Adjective

Meaning

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious. Paul Theroux

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate's immortal loom. Charles Baudelaire

To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker. Samuel Beckett

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Stephen Fry

It's always been an exceedingly curious thing to me, just how incurious most people are about all save their own little island of time and place in the world. Michael Shea

strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them Source: Internet

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