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

I am not less convinced that the impression of the necessity of your filling the station in question is so universal, that you run no risk of any uncandid imputation by submitting to it.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

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

It seemed to her that to omit this, to say nothing of him, would be as unfair to the one as uncandid to the other.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John