undesigning

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Nature, not art, is the great standard of her manners; and her exterior wears no varnish, or embellishment, which is not the genuine signature of an open, undesigning, and benevolent mind.

From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

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

As to marriage, and fortune, and all that, I believe I was almost as innocently undesigning then, as when I loved little Em'ly.

From David Copperfield 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

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