undesigning

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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

An undesigning open heart, where it is loth to disoblige, is easily drawn in, I see, to oblige more than ever it designed.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel

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

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

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

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