All 4 Uses of
candid
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.†
Chpt 4 *
- But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.†
Chpt 4
- Miss Bennet was the only creature who could suppose there might be any extenuating circumstances in the case, unknown to the society of Hertfordshire; her mild and steady candour always pleaded for allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes—but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men.†
Chpt 24
- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(candid as in: your candid opinion) honest and direct