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

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)

There is nothing equivocal in my words, as there can not exist an uncandid sentiment in my heart.

From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

To say that would be as strained and exaggerated, and as contrary to British practicality and freedom from vengefulness, as to deny that some degree of soreness and distance remains would seem to me uncandid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various