undesigning

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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

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

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

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

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

An undesigning open heart, where it is loth to disoblige, is easily drawn in, I see, to oblige more than ever it designed.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel