unconfidentialadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adjective]
openlyeOE
underna900
openeOE
utterly12..
unhida1300
perta1325
apert1330
nakeda1382
public1394
patenta1398
foreign?c1400
overtc1400
unrecovered1433
publicalc1450
open-visageda1513
bare1526
uncloaked1539
subject1556
uncovered1577
unmasked1590
facely1593
undisguised1598
female1602
unveiled1606
unshrouded1610
barefaceda1616
disclouded1615
unhiddena1616
broad-faced1643
with full miena1657
undissembled1671
frank1752
bald-faced1761
unconfidential1772
ostensible1782
unglossed1802
undisguising1813
unvisored1827
unconcealed1839
disprivacied1848
disguiseless1850
bald1854
unobscured1879
visible1885
open door1898
above ground1976
1772 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 384 As I have stated this matter so much at large,..it is not necessary to say more by this unconfidential conveyance.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. vi. 101 Why is it to me thou art thus unconfidential?
1839 John Bull 15 Apr. Showing however unconfidential they may be, that they are at any rate confident men.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air I. xi. 227 The unconfidential terms on which we lived.
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