uncandid

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“The truth, sir?” said Felgate, firing up as uncandid persons always do when their veracity is questioned.

From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines

The ridicule was uncandid, and the laughter dishonest.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The answer was amusingly uncandid, but disproved neither patriotism nor intelligence.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.