undesigning
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undesigning
Example Sentences
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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 first comprises all those manifest indications of provident forethought, intelligent design, and moral purpose, which appear in the course of Nature, and which cannot be accounted for by a blind, unintelligent, undesigning cause.
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James
She had but little sympathy with platonic friendships, and she recognised, with that shrewd mother-sense so many women acquire late in life, that Mrs. Otway was a most undesigning widow.
From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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
Guileless and undesigning are you as the yearling lamb; gentle and affectionate as the cooing dove.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
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