uncandid
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a word derived from
candid.
candidadjectivefrank; outspoken; open and sincere.
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
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Hodge's statement was so diplomatic it was uncandid; the conference was a thorough failure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Sir Owen Seaman
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 Stanley John Weyman
Now, candid reader!—or uncandid either!—which most deserves to be laughed at?
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith