undesigning
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undesigning
Example Sentences
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The undesigning gaiety of youth has the strongest claim upon your humanity.
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
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 Hannah More
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 John Forster
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 Marie Belloc Lowndes
Guileless and undesigning are you as the yearling lamb; gentle and affectionate as the cooing dove.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin
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