All 6 Uses

inquisitive
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A Thousand Acres
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I could tell that the inquisitive souls in front of the church hadn't even entered her mind.†
p. 35.3
Rose was upstairs, talking to Linda and Pammy, getting them to go to sleep in spite of everything, since because of everything there was something intolerable about their inquisitive and fearful presence.†
p. 186.1
Rose shopped harder in Pike and Cabot than she had in a year, riffling through every sales rack, bringing home a hundred dollars' worth of groceries, and deploring my father's drinking (but in an indulgent, daughterly, respectful sort of way) to five or six inquisitive women, including Mary Carson's mother.†
p. 200.7
As hogs are far more inquisitive and destructive than dairy cattle, the plan was to install concrete partitions to about five feet, then wood frame walls above that.†
p. 253.9 *
This remark made him seem inquisitive, and I resented it.†
p. 265.1
The gate proscribed the entry of other realities: our father, Ken LaSalle (though not Mary Carson, who came in his inquisitive way and said to me, "It's just you and Ty now, I guess.†
p. 294.1

Definitions:

(1) (inquisitive)
interested in learning about things -- often asking many questions
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)