uncandidness

English

Etymology

uncandid +‎ -ness

Noun

uncandidness (uncountable)

The quality of not being candid.
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IX, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 193:
  The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room.

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