undesigning

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But of this I am sure, Frederick has too much of your own open undesigning temper to entrap you; even though,' added she, with a sly smile, 'he were wholly without hopes from persuasion.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

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

In this manner some English officer has probably been the undesigning medium of giving these Afghans a peep into the configuration of the earth they live on, and their first lesson in geography.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

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

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