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
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 Henry James
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
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 Harvey Newcomb
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