undesigning

Example Sentences

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

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

The universe was to him a series of events, connected by an undesigning and inscrutable necessity, and an assemblage of forms, to which no beginning or end can be conceived.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

The man, who can persuade others that he gabbles in a pleasant but ridiculous and undesigning manner, will lead them to suppose that his actions are equally incongruous, and void of intention.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

He knew himself for an undesigning hypocrite, and felt that he might as well have been a rascal complete.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

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