uncandid
Example Sentences
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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
She finished it with a wonderful look, a look of unblinking yet vaguely, pitifully uncandid candour.
From The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair
If he counselled his correspondents otherwise, he would be uncandid, and when he had imagined putting them off in that fashion he was more ashamed than he had been with their praise.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
It is opposed to all that is uncandid and disingenuous, coarse and harsh, unkind, severe, and bitter, in the disposition of fallen humanity.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb
