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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

At all events, I have told you what, had I kept back, would have seemed to myself an uncandid reservation.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

To say that would be as strained and exaggerated, and as contrary to British practicality and freedom from vengefulness, as to deny that some degree of soreness and distance remains would seem to me uncandid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various

She finished it with a wonderful look, a look of unblinking yet vaguely, pitifully uncandid candour.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by Sinclair, May