uncandid

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Philip was not uncandid; and he remembered then, that he had often thrown himself in Lord Robert's way, and committed many outrages, on purpose to provoke him.

From The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Strickland, Agnes

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

Theology is the most uncandid of all the current sciences; its results are the most self-contradictory; its premisses the most incoherent.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)