uncandid

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Chairman Caraway, accusing him of being "uncandid," remarked: "If you sold wheat abroad the way you answer this committee's questions, you'd never sell a bushel."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hodge's statement was so diplomatic it was uncandid; the conference was a thorough failure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theology is the most uncandid of all the current sciences; its results are the most self-contradictory; its premisses the most incoherent.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

But I would willingly, were it possible, obviate uncandid criticism, because to answer it is lost labor, and to receive it in silence has the appearance of stately reserve, and self-importance.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Certain of the strictures here alluded to, were petty, coarse, and uncandid; and with this observation they are dismissed from further notice.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various