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