uncandid

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

"With Mrs. Needham?" repeated Errington, in a slightly mocking tone, and elevating his eyebrows in a way that made Katherine blush for her uncandid remark.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.