uninquiringly

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A form of unenquiringly — In an unenquiring manner.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

adverbuninquiringly (comparative more uninquiringly, superlative most uninquiringly)

comparative more uninquiringly · superlative most uninquiringly

  1. alternativeAlternative form of unenquiringly.

    The knock was repeated, and a man’s voice—it sounded like the valet’s—said my name dully and uninquiringly, as if he was reading it from a list.

    1997, Peter Cameron, chapter 7, in Andorra, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 61
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    The name of the Tomb of Psammis has been so arbitrarily conferred on this magnificent excavation, and so uninquiringly conceded, that it may appear a task as bold as it is singular, to gainsay its title to the name, and reverse the decree of fashion.

    1823 May, E. C., “On the (So Called) Tomb of Psammis”, in The Album, volume III, number V, London: […] J. Andrews, […], →OCLC, page 74

    In seminaries and colleges, where it is the system to cultivate the head and neglect the heart, the minds of our youth, without the smallest regard to their respective tendencies, […] models are set before the students, that they may be servilely and uninquiringly copied;—[…]

    1829, [Horace Smith], chapter II, in The New Forest. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 35

Origin

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