undesigning
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undesigning
Example Sentences
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This open friend, this undesigning hero, With noisy falsehoods, forc'd me from your arms, To shock my virtue with a tale of love.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
The universe was to him a series of events, connected by an undesigning and inscrutable necessity, and an assemblage of forms, to which no beginning or end can be conceived.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
I have often seen the artful, though they despise defenceless simplicity, and delight to exert their skill against weapons like their own, yet shrink with instinctive dread from plain, undesigning common sense.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
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 Dickens, Charles
An undesigning open heart, where it is loth to disoblige, is easily drawn in, I see, to oblige more than ever it designed.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel
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