undesigning

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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

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

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

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

Sincere and undesigning himself, he was by no means a match for the duplicity of others.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.

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