undesigning
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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
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
They will either be disposed by wisdom, or they will be disposed by chance; that is, they will be disposed by blind and undesigning causes, if that were possible, and could be called a disposal.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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
It is, "that organs for a definite end should be produced by undesigning or mechanical causes."
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles