Sample sentences for CANDID - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
your candid opinion

Definition

honest and direct

candid = honest and direct

Other Uses (with this meaning)

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

candid = honest and direct

It was called "The Economic Stability Bill," but a more candid name might have been "The Protect Established Businesses from Competition Bill."
a candid interview
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Thomas Jefferson -- The Declaration of Independence
It was candid, even brutal, in its assessment of the situation.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet

candid = honest and straightforward

...with full candor, hiding no faults and pretending no virtues.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

candor = honesty and directness

candid = honest and straightforward

candidly = with honesty and directness

He'd learned long ago that candor can jump back on you with teeth.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

candor = direct honesty

2 —as in:
a candid photograph

Definition

unposed — typically said of a photograph

A photographer will take traditional wedding pictures. I'm just going to get some candid shots.

candid = unposed

Other Uses (with this meaning)

candid = unposed

Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

candid = unposed (genuine)

candid = unposed

At the end of every school year there was the annual slide show, full of candid shots that hadn't made the yearbook.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You

candid = unposed

Several candid shots, like a kiss or a smile, had been blown up and changed to black-and-white, making them seem more classic than casual.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir

candid = unposed

One of them was called Down Your Way, and was all full of candid photos of readers and their wives in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
Louise Rennison -- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

candid = unposed

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

candid = unposed

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.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

candid = unposed

IT'S WORK! screamed the headline above a candid shot of me yawning.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir

candid = unposed

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