unperceiving

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The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was, in fact, that which, with a secret fatuity, he had watched Mrs. Thorley Rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband: a smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

I do not believe that it hath any figure or motion at all, being already convinced, that no sensible qualities can exist in an unperceiving substance.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

They equally affirm that the so-called representative image is the sole reality, and discard as unthinkable the unperceiving material cause of the philosophers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

They think us merely cruel—just as we, in the same unperceiving manner, think them merely covetous.

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William