undesigning

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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

He knew himself for an undesigning hypocrite, and felt that he might as well have been a rascal complete.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

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

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

They are such thoughtless, and undesigning rogues as you, that make a drudge of poor Providence, and set it a shifting for you.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John