How to Use incurious in a Sentence

incurious

adjective
  • She is remarkably incurious about the natural world.
  • But a brand-new war run by this corrupt, incurious president, that is the ultimate fear.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Heart transplant recipients sometimes are incurious about the details of the lives of their donors.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Michael is fundamentally incurious about its subject as a human or artist.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • This isn’t because this laughably incurious man is now the 45th president of the United States.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 22 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Public officials should understand by now that being silent or incurious about lead poisoning is being complicit.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The author himself seems delighted but incurious about the situation.
    — Charles Finch, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Underneath all of that old Jewish humor is a woman who makes no effort to get to know the person her child has become, and who remains incurious about the parts of the world that don’t fit with her agenda.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • An incurious press corps seems largely uninterested in the appropriate size of the federal workforce.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • 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
  • The current president is fundamentally incurious about the world.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
  • When felled by illness in various ways, they’re mystified but incurious, irritated but not despairing, and in utter disbelief that things can really go south.
    — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
  • American teenagers, to his great benefit, were naturally incurious.
    — Daniel Riley, GQ, 1 May 2018
  • Curious about race and IQ, incurious about race Harris and Murray’s conversation stretches more than two hours.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • For many readers, like me, TFP is a welcome alternative to the incurious group-think that weighed down The Gray Lady.
    — Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many secularists have convinced themselves that actual Christians are just as incurious and stultified as the Christians of their imagination.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
  • He’s narrowly focussed on the relentless course of the action, and incurious about its byways, its implications, its material or emotional realities.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
  • 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

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