undesigning
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undesigning
Example Sentences
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Guileless and undesigning are you as the yearling lamb; gentle and affectionate as the cooing dove.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin
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
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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe
As to marriage, and fortune, and all that, I believe I was almost as innocently undesigning then, as when I loved little Em'ly.
From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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
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