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

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

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

But it was a makeshift, uncandid, unfair, cunningly contrived to evade the full responsibility of the situation.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie