undesigning
Example Sentences
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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.'
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
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
It is, "that organs for a definite end should be produced by undesigning or mechanical causes."
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles
Her gentle frankness and undesigning temper gradually got the better of this little shyness, and she soon began to treat me as the son of her father's friend.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah
