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My candid opinion is that their team is much better than ours, but an upset isn't impossible.

It was called "The Economic Stability Bill," but a more candid name might have been "The Protect Established Businesses from Competition Bill."

McCandless was candid with Stuckey about his intent to spend the summer alone in the bush, living off the land.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

...with full candor, hiding no faults and pretending no virtues.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

I didn't know if we were still being as candid today.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

Her candour made allowances for nobody:  (source) Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, 1940

"Because," answered Mr. Jamison candidly, "there aren't enough of those same white people who would admit how they feel, or even if they did, would hang a white man for killing a black one."  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

He did not address himself to an uncandid judge or a resentful heart.  (source) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799

I was surprised by his candidness and said so.  (source) James McBride, The Color of Water, 1996

"The uncandor, the prejudices, the rage among several persons here, make me sick as death," Adams wrote in his diary.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Her candor and exquisite simplicity framed the rest of my trip and helped me better understand the land I was living in.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

His face was completely questioning and candid.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

There was about him a candour and gentleness which made the women trust him.  (source) D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913

These are candid pictures from last night's party.

And pictures: candid snapshots of me in a parking lot, me leaving my house, me at the mall.  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

We'll be taking some candid shots later.  (source) Kiera Cass, The One, 2014

"We should get them some candid photos too," I said.  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Edgar scrutinized the posed group shots and candids—the football team, the farm club, the choral group, the crowd in the cafeteria.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

The picture they use isn't a mug shot, it's a candid shot: he's on holiday somewhere, not quite smiling, but almost.  (source) Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, 2015

There were candids.†  (source) Lincoln Pierce, Big Nate - In a Class by Himself, 2010

Paul took them and stared from one to the other: a posed picture of a girl, smiling, and then a candid shot of her shooting a basket.  (source) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2005

SNAPSHOTS With the camera my parents gave me, I took dozens of candids of my family.†  (source) Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, 2002

The day after Tyler took the candid shots of our student bodies began like any other.  (source) Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why, 2007

Year after year they provided a lead story, complete with a portrait of the crowned and comely maiden, candids of picnicking families ("The Maltons of Protection Point enjoy Saturday's strawberry festival"), and a beneficent editorial or boilerplate column approving the efforts of local organizers ("...Ed Bailey, Lois Dunkirk, and Carl Heine, Sr., without whom none of this would have been possible ...").†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

And, yes, two candid shots of someone mounted for a polo match.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

The yearbook candids were of nothing but us.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 2009