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

However he did not lower the bolstering this time: nor was he so uncandid as to detract from the pagan character of the bolstered.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

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

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