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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an uncandid manner.

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Examples

  • If you say, it builds up our economy, while ever so uncandidly, concealing that you have not said that it does so per capita; knowing that almost anyone will think that improving the economy means improving per capita output, isn't that deception?

    Free Trade Equals Redistribution?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I am the last person in the world to press conclusions harshly or uncandidly against Coleridge, but I believe it to be notorious that he first began the use of opium not as a relief from any bodily pains or nervous irritations -- for his constitution was strong and excellent -- but as a source of luxurious sensation.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • Rosetta stone, and metes to Young and Champollion their due shares in that discovery, of which each uncandidly claimed the whole.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • β€œIt would be, of course, most desirable to be informed exactly,” insisted the Assistant Commissioner uncandidly.

    The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890

  • He suppressed, a little uncandidly, the fact of her first reluctance.

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • But I am as little disposed to unsettle the reader's faith in the Virgilian tradition, as to part with my own; and I therefore uncandidly hold back the names of the authorities cited.

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

  • To say, Mr. President, that no doubt had ever floated over my mind -- that no cloud had ever floate [damaged page] t my mental vision -- would be to speak uncandidly.

    State of the country : speech of Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, in the Confederate Senate, December 24, 1863, 1863

  • Gibbon, who describes his case with special minuteness, most uncandidly represents it as affording an average specimen of the style in which condemned Christians were treated.

    The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

  • We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man, -- making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • You have been so unhandsomely and uncandidly dealt with by a friend of yours and mine that I should be sorry to find myself in the position of an opponent to you, and more particularly with the chance of making a fool of myself.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin β€” Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

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