uncandidadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkandᵻd/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkandᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈkændəd/ Not candid or open; disingenuous:
a. Of opinions, utterances, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > disposed to secrecy, secretive > of speech, opinion, etc.
uncandid1681
unfrank1861
1681 J. Kettlewell Meas. Christian Obed. v. iii. 633 Peevish, or uncourteous, or uncandid, behaviour.
1694 J. Kettlewell Compan. for Penitent 59 All the..evil and uncandid surmises..which I stand guilty of towards any.
1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 180 How grossly uncandid and clumsily crafty this Rhapsody was, appears at the first Glance.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 651/2 The experiment is incomplete, and the conclusion drawn from it uncandid and precipitate.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 110 That Leighton attached a definite sense to the words above quoted, it would be uncandid to doubt.
1884 R. W. Church Bacon i. 26 Bacon's reply..is not more one-sided and uncandid than the pamphlet which it answers.
b. Of persons.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disingenuousness > [adjective]
unwholea1352
unsincere1577
insincere1634
uningenious1638
uningenuous1638
disingenuous1648
disingenious1661
uncandid1771
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > disingenuous or insincere
unwholea1352
unsincere1577
insincere1634
uningenious1638
uningenuous1638
disingenuous1648
disingenious1661
uncandid1771
fake1942
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 221 Will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination?
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 275 The proud, uncandid, insincere, Or negligent, inquirer.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 27 The temper, not of judges, but of angry and uncandid advocates.
Derivatives
unˈcandidly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adverb] > lacking candour
uncandidly1801
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 132/1 It had been most uncandidly, because untruly argued.
1852 C. Reade Peg Woffington x. 195 She offered to come to him. He answered uncandidly.
unˈcandidness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disingenuousness > [noun]
uningenuousness1644
unsincerity1646
disingenuity1650
uningenuity1650
disingenuousness1674
uncandidness1681
unsincereness1683
insinceritya1699
uncandour1879
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > disingenuousness or insincerity
uningenuousness1644
unsincerity1646
disingenuity1650
uningenuity1650
unsinglenessa1658
disingenuousness1674
uncandidness1681
unsincereness1683
insinceritya1699
uncandour1879
1681 J. Kettlewell Meas. Christian Obed. v. iii. 633 Has any man..committed any action of..Uncandidness, Unmercifulness, Unpeaceableness, or the like?
1754 C. Talbot Let. 16 Mar. in Lett. Mrs. E. Carter & Miss C. Talbot (1808) I. 355 The uncandidness of disliking and throwing aside such a book, on casually dipping into the midst of it.
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