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

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

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

To Althea it seemed that Helen's candour was merciless, and revealed her to herself as uncandid, crooked, and devious.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas