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

Nothing could be more uncandid than this statement.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

It is opposed to all that is uncandid and disingenuous, coarse and harsh, unkind, severe, and bitter, in the disposition of fallen humanity.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey

So was it, by being loyal, another kind of lie, the lie of the uncandid profession of a motive.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry