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 truth, sir?” said Felgate, firing up as uncandid persons always do when their veracity is questioned.

From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines

To please an unqualified judge, an author must sacrifice too much; and the attempt to please an uncandid one were altogether hopeless.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

A most uncandid way of putting it, for the fact was he had heard it all from Sally in the strictest confidence.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend