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

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

The sentimental woman feels that the comic, undesigning, unconscious man, is 'Her Fate.'—I her fate?

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

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

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