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
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
They will either be disposed by wisdom, or they will be disposed by chance; that is, they will be disposed by blind and undesigning causes, if that were possible, and could be called a disposal.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.
From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
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