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unˈcandid, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not candid or open; disingenuous: a. Of opinions, utterances, etc.
1681Kettlewell Meas. Chr. Obed. v. iii. 633 Peevish, or uncourteous, or uncandid, behaviour. 1694― Compan. Penitent 59, All the..evil and uncandid surmises..which I stand guilty of towards any. 1759Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 305 How grossly uncandid and clumsily crafty this rhapsody was, appears at the first glance. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 651/2 The experiment is incomplete, and the conclusion drawn from it uncandid and precipitate. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 84 That Leighton attached a definite sense to the words above quoted, it would be uncandid to doubt. 1884Church Bacon i. 26 Bacon's reply..is not more one-sided and uncandid than the pamphlet which it answers.
b. Of persons.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 June, Will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination? 1784Cowper Task iii. 275 The proud, uncandid, insincere, Or negligent, inquirer. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 27 The temper, not of judges, but of angry and uncandid advocates.
Hence unˈcandidly adv.; unˈcandidness.
1681Kettlewell Measures Chr. Obed. v. iii. 633 Has any man..committed any action of..Uncandidness, Unmercifulness, Unpeaceableness, or the like? 1754Miss Talbot Lett. (1809) II. 160 The uncandidness of disliking and throwing aside such a book, on casually dipping into the midst of it. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Proc. E. Ind. Ho. 132/1 It had been most uncandidly, because untruly argued. 1852Reade Peg Woff. x. 195 She offered to come to him. He answered uncandidly. |