undesigning
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Honest, undesigning good sense is so unfashionable, that he must be a bold man who, at this time of day, attempts to bring it into esteem.
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I play a surer game, and screen my heart With easy looks and undesigning smiles; And while my actions spring from sober thought, They still appear th' effect of wild caprice, And I, the thoughtless slave of giddy chance.
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Simple, sim′pl, adj. single: undivided: resisting decomposition: elementary, undeveloped: plain, single, entire: homogeneous: open: unaffected: undesigning: true: clear: straightforward: artless: guileless: unsuspecting: credulous: not cunning: weak in intellect: silly: of mean birth—opposed to Gentle.—n. something not mixed or compounded: a medicinal herb: a simple feast—opposed to a double or semidouble.—v.i. to gather simples or medicinal plants.—adjs.
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Undesigning, un-de-zī′ning, adj. not designing: artless: straightforward: sincere.—adj.
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But of this I am sure, Frederick has too much of your own open undesigning temper to entrap you; even though,' added she, with a sly smile, 'he were wholly without hopes from persuasion.'
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