(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.
Incuriousness
Definition:
(n.) Unconcernedness; incuriosity.
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.