uninquiringly

English

Etymology

From uninquiring +‎ -ly.

Adverb

uninquiringly (comparative more uninquiringly, superlative most uninquiringly)

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

     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.

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

     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;—[…]

   • 1997, Peter Cameron, chapter 7, in Andorra, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 61:

     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.