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

The undesigning Boffin had become so far immeshed by the wily Wegg that his mind misgave him he was a very designing man indeed in purposing to do more for Wegg.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

And that, I have told you, is sincere and undesigning, whatever I may be hereafter.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

In this manner some English officer has probably been the undesigning medium of giving these Afghans a peep into the configuration of the earth they live on, and their first lesson in geography.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

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 Richardson, Samuel