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

To please an unqualified judge, an author must sacrifice too much; and the attempt to please an uncandid one were altogether hopeless.

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

Neither did they correctly appreciate the ungenerous and uncandid spirit of the leaders among their opponents in clinging to this charge, and reiterating it, after they had failed to substantiate it by any credible evidence.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

It would be uncandid to pretend that Mr. Algernon Blackwood gets everything he has to say in The Starlight Express safely across the footlights—those fateful barriers that trap so many excellent intentions.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir