undesigning

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This alarmed me prodigiously; and the rather, as I saw, by two or three instances, that his honest heart could keep nothing, believing every one as undesigning as himself.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

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.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

The sentimental woman feels that the comic, undesigning, unconscious man, is 'Her Fate.'—I her fate?

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

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.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

An undesigning open heart, where it is loth to disoblige, is easily drawn in, I see, to oblige more than ever it designed.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel