undesigning
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undesigning
Example Sentences
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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
This alarmed me prodigiously; and the rather, as I saw, by two or three instances, that his honest heart could keep nothing, believing every one as undesigning as himself.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel
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
Yes, Matilda, I trampled at once upon the exemptions of your sex, upon the sanctity of virtue, upon the most inoffensive and undesigning of characters.
From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by Godwin, William
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
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