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
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
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 Mary Brunton
Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.
From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Honest, undesigning good sense is so unfashionable, that he must be a bold man who, at this time of day, attempts to bring it into esteem.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
