uncandid
Example Sentences
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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
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 J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
"I have been so uncandid with you all this time," said she, in broken accents.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
But I would willingly, were it possible, obviate uncandid criticism, because to answer it is lost labor, and to receive it in silence has the appearance of stately reserve, and self-importance.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
