uncandid

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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 deny that this blessing, as well as many other blessings which we enjoy, is not productive of any particular evil, would be uncandid and unwise.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

I am not less convinced that the impression of the necessity of your filling the station in question is so universal, that you run no risk of any uncandid imputation by submitting to it.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

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