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  • The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.

    The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890

  • But at last, he bethought him, that the various narrations he had heard, could not have been otherwise than unavoidably faulty; by reason that they had been principally obtained from the inhabitants of the countries described; who, very naturally, must have been inclined to partiality or uncandidness in their statements.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

  • I know very little of Horne, but my one visit to him a few weeks ago would show the uncandidness of those charges: for instance, he talked a good deal about horses, meaning to ride in Ireland, and described very cleverly an old hunter he had hired once, -- how it galloped and could not walk; also he propounded a theory of the true method of behaving in the saddle when

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

  • She contemplates you now with somewhat less of horror, and with a virtuous and ingenuous fear of uncandidness and injustice upon your account.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

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