What's the difference between incurious and uninterested?

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.

Uninterested


Definition:

  • (a.) Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.
  • (a.) Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (2) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (3) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
  • (4) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
  • (5) The UK press is uninterested in "regional" stories while the Scottish press is often weak and compromised when it comes to oversight of our representatives.
  • (6) The British citizen says he was also interrogated by two British men who declined to identify themselves and who appeared uninterested in his complaints of mistreatment.
  • (7) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (8) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
  • (9) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
  • (10) Whether the issue is anti-democratic developments in Asia and in and around Russia or, for example, using US leverage to help create a unified, democratic Palestinian state, Obama has often appeared personally detached , even uninterested.
  • (11) "If he had started the negotiations in July (when they were chasing an uninterested ‘Cesc) then fine.
  • (12) Assigning patients at random to treatments and no treatment who are uninterested, who desire particular treatments, or who are in need of specific treatments is impractical and socially unacceptable.
  • (13) Dacre is uninterested in the web, famously dubbing it "bullshit.com" .
  • (14) That’s little comfort to victims of online harassment, who still face uninterested or uninformed law enforcement officers when they report, a patchwork of laws that makes harassment difficult to prosecute across state let alone international lines, and a civil process that is expensive and time-consuming even when it works at all.
  • (15) On the basis of the present findings it was concluded that the problem of rotation was not of importance and scientifically uninteresting and that the hierarchical factor solutions were highly stable.
  • (16) "Another is the way Iranians appear uninterested but will rush and vote at the last minute."
  • (17) Various alternatives have been proposed, in particular the Gini coefficient which clearly answers a different, possibly rather uninteresting, question.
  • (18) As the Obama team conducted its post-mortem, his campaign advisers faced questions about why Obama had appeared tired and uninterested, and about his failure to match Romney's aggression.
  • (19) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
  • (20) If England had not hung in until they started to win matches, if the home side had made a mid-tournament exit as they have done so many times since, the event as a whole could easily have been dismissed as uninteresting by the television audience at large.