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

It would be uncandid to pretend that Mr. Algernon Blackwood gets everything he has to say in The Starlight Express safely across the footlights—those fateful barriers that trap so many excellent intentions.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Reader, candid or uncandid, carefully read and reflect on the facts described in this whole affair.

From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Payne, Buckner H. 'Ariel'

But I would willingly, were it possible, obviate uncandid criticism, because to answer it is lost labor, and to receive it in silence has the appearance of stately reserve, and self-importance.

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