undesigning

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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

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 undesigning gaiety of youth has the strongest claim upon your humanity.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

They will either be disposed by wisdom, or they will be disposed by chance; that is, they will be disposed by blind and undesigning causes, if that were possible, and could be called a disposal.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

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