uncandid
Example Sentences
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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
The ridicule was uncandid, and the laughter dishonest.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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 Charles Reade
Reader, candid or uncandid, carefully read and reflect on the facts described in this whole affair.
From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne
