undesigning

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Guileless and undesigning are you as the yearling lamb; gentle and affectionate as the cooing dove.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

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

To force further solemn promises from so forgetful, so unreflecting, yet so undesigning and well-meaning a young creature, is to plunge him and ourselves into the culpability of which we accuse him.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

They are such thoughtless, and undesigning rogues as you, that make a drudge of poor Providence, and set it a shifting for you.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

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

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel