idle curiosity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofidleandcuriosity
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idle
adjective
uk/ˈaɪ.dəl/us/ˈaɪ.dəl/
not working or ...
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curiosity
noun
uk/ˌkjʊə.riˈɒs.ə.ti/us/ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/
an eager wish to know or learn ...
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(Definition ofidleandcuriosityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofidle curiosity
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The need for information was not a matter ofidlecuriosity.
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Other thanidlecuriositythere is no reason why such a reader should today read the texts of natural sciences.
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This important and difficult book has made this reader want to understand such riddles better - and not out ofidlecuriosity.
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An inquiry into institutions may supply the analytical knowledge essential to a program of social control or it may do no more than set adventures foridlecuriosity.
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It is not a matter ofidlecuriosity.
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It might be an interest that derived from a loan, and there is no need to prove interest apart fromidlecuriosity.
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I would like to reaffirm what was said in correspondence, that it would not be done out ofidlecuriosity.
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Idlecuriosityand gossip do not warrant the protection which is afforded by qualified privilege.
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In some cases they attend out ofidlecuriosity.
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It is often only out ofidlecuriosity.
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Is itidlecuriosity, or is it to help with the arithmetic?
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We do not ask this only out ofidlecuriosity.
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It is hard to believe that that is simplyidlecuriosity.
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Sometimes quite important matters have a habit of revealing themselves from inquiries prompted byidlecuriosity.
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Is not this question put merely in order to satisfyidlecuriosity?
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But yet one of the few occasions whenidlecuriositygets what it deserves.
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But one can only deplore the fact that people should allowidlecuriosityto permit them to get in the way of operations vital to the saving of life.
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This is not justidlecuriosity.
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I should perhaps add to satisfy anyidlecuriositythat the fact that we are proposing this change does not indicate any firm intention to make use of it.
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In the beginning, he is a schoolboy, with no greater concerns than boredom at school and anidlecuriosityabout girls.
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