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

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 Burns, Robert

I knew, too, that if an uncandid use should be made of it, there would be found those who would so prove it.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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