overcurious
- a word derived from curious.
Example Sentences
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People in East Africa have long known about the crested rat’s poisonous punch, which has felled many an overcurious dog.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020
Today’s consumer-available drones remain effectively blind, and no one has yet developed software that would allow the devices to reliably avoid quotidian obstacles like trees, power lines, sudden and strong weather, and overcurious dogs.
From Slate • Jul. 20, 2015
She feeds the overcurious Jeffrey information she hears from her father—that the ear is connected to an investigation involving a local nightclub singer, Dorothy Vallens, played with a wounded luminousness by Rossellini.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2011
So she took it to the Animal Rescue League, whose veterinarians diagnosed the ailment as dumb rabies, the variety in which the sick beast remains quiet and sullen until an overcurious human pokes at it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a very lucid explanation; but George Prattleton was tired and cross, and not really overcurious.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
