(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curious thing, it seems to me, is that she was never criticised for it.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(5) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(6) Curiously, actual modelling conducted by the Housing Industry Association suggests that limiting negative gearing could actually cause house prices to go up.
(7) So it may seem curious that Tina Modotti became one of Mexican Folkways’s official photographers.
(8) Another expanding market in the UK is frozen yogurt and that, curiously, we do seem happy to eat year-round.
(9) Curiously, although the cells of foci in early phases of development did not exhibit dye-transfer capacity, dye-coupling was observed in mass cultures of most transformed cell lines cloned from foci.
(10) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
(11) In ten of these patients clinical evaluation established a diagnosis, for example: drug allergy, food allergy, a curious form of hospital addiction syndrome, an underlying malignancy, systemic mast cell disease or a complement abnormality.
(12) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(13) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
(14) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
(15) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(16) 7.49pm BST "Living in the States during a World Cup is always fascinating, but this year is even more curious," says Oliver Pattenden.
(17) But it's a curious priority, especially when the mayor himself cycles in everyday clothes and has expressed the hope that other Londoners will, too, as happens in the Netherlands and Denmark.
(18) • Match report: Argentina 2-1 Bosnia-Herzegovina • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Iran • Match report: Argentina 3-2 Nigeria • Match report: Argentina 1-0 Belgium • Match report: Argentina 0-0 Holland (Argentina win 4-2 on pens) 3) Holland ▲1 There was not to be a final masterstroke from Louis van Gaal, whose Holland side deserved its spot in the last four but had a curious tournament.
(19) It seems however, to be due to an immunologic process as shown by the relationship between this curious disease and Goodpasture's syndrome.
(20) All of which makes it curious to find the film's stars abruptly reunited in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just south of the Arc de Triomphe.
Incurious
Definition:
(a.) Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the few outlets they don't own – the BBC – has been disgracefully incurious about the identity of those to whom it gives a platform.
(2) The new director general and his PR advisers were keenly aware that Entwistle contributed to his own demise by appearing to take a hands-off approach to the scandal, which led him to being branded "incurious George" by the media.
(3) Australia’s lack of interest in alleged corporate crimes in far-away places is related to a worrying incuriousness among reporters and politicians (the Greens are a key exception ).
(4) Let's go back to 9 July 2009 and that Gordon Taylor revelation – which, we now know, had been the subject of so much internal discussion within NI since the previous year, though the executive chairman of News International, James Murdoch , seems to have been remarkable incurious about it.
(5) He has come across as either lacking in nous or staggeringly incurious.
(6) It’s a sculpture,” Long explained, “made by me, actually.” “Oh, I thought it might have been something to mark the path,” the man said and strode on, quite incurious.
(7) No 10 refused to explain the prime minister's apparently incurious attitude, saying he would explain his approach when he gives evidence to the inquiry himself, probably in June.
(8) There are some things that British newspapers should respect more, such as privacy, but it is also possible for respect to shade into the kind of incurious deference to power which lets scandalous behaviour flourish.
(9) Although, in fairness, his fellow presenter, a professional, seemed equally incurious about what the Perrinses wanted their missing £2,400 childcare money for, since they would not be spending it on childcare.