adv. [UN-1 11; cf. prec.]

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  † 1.  In a plain or unelaborate manner. Obs.

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1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, ii. 15. Ensiewed creusa his wyf, vncuryously aourned, Nothyng appertenaunt to thestate Royall.

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1611.  Cotgr., Incurieusement, vncuriously, plainely, after a homely manner.

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1716–20.  Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 284. Handling the Subject uncuriously and unpolitely.

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  2.  Without curiosity. Cf. INCURIOUSLY adv.

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1667.  G. Digby, Elvira, I. 15. I should have thought you strangely chang’d in humour Should you have gone away so uncuriously.

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., xi. 483. I began, not uncuriously, to peruse these latest products of the English imagination.

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