undesigning

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For a free, open, undesigning deportment, I put on that of closeness, prudence, and economy.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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 Brunton, Mary

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

It is, "that organs for a definite end should be produced by undesigning or mechanical causes."

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

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