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单词 uncuriously
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uncuriouslyadv.

Etymology: un- prefix1 5; compare uncurious adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈcuriously.
1. In a plain or unelaborate manner. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adverb] > without sophistication
uncuriously1490
simple1550
unsophistically1794
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos ii. 15 Ensiewed creusa his wyf, vncuryously aourned, Nothyng appertenaunt to thestate Royall.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Incurieusement, vncuriously, plainely, after a homely manner.
1716–20 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 284 Handling the Subject uncuriously and unpolitely.
2. Without curiosity. Cf. incuriously adv.
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the mind > attention and judgement > [adverb] > without curiosity
incuriously1603
uncuriously1667
unenquiringly1841
1667 G. Digby Elvira i. 15 I should have thought you strangely chang'd in humour Should you have gone away so uncuriously.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 483 I began, not uncuriously, to peruse these latest products of the English imagination.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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