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

To Althea it seemed that Helen's candour was merciless, and revealed her to herself as uncandid, crooked, and devious.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Certain of the strictures here alluded to, were petty, coarse, and uncandid; and with this observation they are dismissed from further notice.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

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 Newcomb, Harvey