Candor
Antonyms of CANDOR
- reticence, falseness, shadowiness, inequity, delusion, untruth, inhibition, imposture, dullness, indirection, dark, secretiveness, reserve, deception, lackluster, grayness, shadiness, dimness, cloudiness, dissembling, colorlessness, gloominess, diplomacy, fiction, mendacity, restraint, duskiness, somberness, duplicity, unfairness, fabrication, dishonesty, paleness, evasiveness, artifice, error, murkiness, tact, lying, circuitousness, deceit, dissimulation, haziness, obscureness, blackness, falsehood, guile, falsity, shyness, lie, darkness, obscurity.
Examples of usage:
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The act was deficient in candor, and seems to have a look as though you estimated yourself or the Club at too low a figure. "The Comstock Club" by Charles Carroll Goodwin
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I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have the surprise of candor. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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It is but lately, sir, that I have undergone the popular ordeal upon this question; and I tell you, in all candor and sincerity, that I would not be in this Hall to- day if I had not made them the most solemn assurances that all my energies and whatever influence I possessed would be exerted to procure for them the fifty- seven thousand square miles included within the limits designated in their original constitution. "History of the Constitutions of Iowa" by Benjamin F. Shambaugh