undesigning

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The man, who can persuade others that he gabbles in a pleasant but ridiculous and undesigning manner, will lead them to suppose that his actions are equally incongruous, and void of intention.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

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

I have often seen the artful, though they despise defenceless simplicity, and delight to exert their skill against weapons like their own, yet shrink with instinctive dread from plain, undesigning common sense.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

As to marriage, and fortune, and all that, I believe I was almost as innocently undesigning then, as when I loved little Em'ly.

From David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles

Yes, Matilda, I trampled at once upon the exemptions of your sex, upon the sanctity of virtue, upon the most inoffensive and undesigning of characters.

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by Godwin, William