undesigning
Example Sentences
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And that, I have told you, is sincere and undesigning, whatever I may be hereafter.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel
The universe was to him a series of events, connected by an undesigning and inscrutable necessity, and an assemblage of forms, to which no beginning or end can be conceived.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
For a free, open, undesigning deportment, I put on that of closeness, prudence, and economy.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
To force further solemn promises from so forgetful, so unreflecting, yet so undesigning and well-meaning a young creature, is to plunge him and ourselves into the culpability of which we accuse him.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
She had but little sympathy with platonic friendships, and she recognised, with that shrewd mother-sense so many women acquire late in life, that Mrs. Otway was a most undesigning widow.
From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
