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Uncandid   Listen
adjective
Uncandid  adj.  See candid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Uncandid" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a policy of procrastination. It sounded silly, of course, as yet, to plead such a motive, especially as the fascination of the place was after all a sort of torment. But she liked her torment; it was a torment she should miss at Chalk Farm. She was ingenious and uncandid, therefore, about leaving the breadth of London a little longer between herself and that austerity. If she hadn't quite the courage in short to say to Mr. Mudge that her actual chance for a play of mind was worth any week the three shillings he desired to help her to ...
— In the Cage • Henry James

... circumstances compels me to furnish from the army, being deducted, will reduce the efficient operating force of these corps to seven thousand five hundred and fiftythree rank and file, and I should be uncandid if I were not to acknowledge, that I do not expect it will be increased by recruits in the course of the campaign, to more than ten thousand fit for duty in the field. This, Sir, in my opinion will be the full amount of the established ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI • Various



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