undesigning

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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

Sincere and undesigning himself, he was by no means a match for the duplicity of others.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.

Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.

From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles

It is, "that organs for a definite end should be produced by undesigning or mechanical causes."

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

Honest, undesigning good sense is so unfashionable, that he must be a bold man who, at this time of day, attempts to bring it into esteem.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop