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
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 Robert Burns
At all events, I have told you what, had I kept back, would have seemed to myself an uncandid reservation.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
To say that would be as strained and exaggerated, and as contrary to British practicality and freedom from vengefulness, as to deny that some degree of soreness and distance remains would seem to me uncandid.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
