undesigning
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His gen'rous, open, undesigning heart Has begg'd his rival to solicit for him!
From Cato A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Joseph Addison
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 William Godwin
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 Samuel Richardson
For a free, open, undesigning deportment, I put on that of closeness, prudence, and economy.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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 Mary Brunton
