Sample Sentences for
candid
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candid as in:  your candid opinion

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Don't worry about my feelings. I'd like your candid opinion.
candid = honest and direct
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    My candid opinion is that their team is much better than ours, but an upset isn't impossible.
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    It was called "The Economic Stability Bill," but a more candid name might have been "The Protect Established Businesses from Competition Bill."
    candid = honest and straightforward
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    McCandless was candid with Stuckey about his intent to spend the summer alone in the bush, living off the land.  (source)
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    ...with full candor, hiding no faults and pretending no virtues.  (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
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    Father and Mother's biggest mistake in dealing with the van Daans is that they're never candid... Mrs. van D. can be won over by talking openly to her and admitting when you're wrong.  (source)
    candid = completely honest and straightforward
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    Interpret my words with candour and answer me,  (source)
    candour = honesty and directness
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
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    DUMBLEDORE: Candidly, Harry, it seemed a great weight to place upon the poor boy.  (source)
    Candidly = with honesty and directness
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    He did not address himself to an uncandid judge or a resentful heart.  (source)
    uncandid = dishonest or insincere
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncandid means not and reverses the meaning of candid. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I was surprised by his candidness and said so.  (source)
    candidness = directness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "The uncandor, the prejudices, the rage among several persons here, make me sick as death," Adams wrote in his diary.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncandor means not and reverses the meaning of candor. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She has a mother and a little sister, both former Candor.  (source)
    Candor = in this novel, the group of people who most highly value honesty and directness
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    His face was completely questioning and candid.  (source)
    candid = honest
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    Her candour made allowances for nobody:  (source)
    candour = honesty and directness
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candid as in:  a candid photograph

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A photographer will take traditional wedding pictures. I'm just going to get some candid shots.
candid = unposed
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    These are candid pictures from last night's party.
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    We'll be taking some candid shots later.  (source)
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    "We should get them some candid photos too," I said.  (source)
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    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)
    candid = unposed
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    There were candids.†  (source)
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    Next to it were two smaller, candid shots of Herschel and Ramona, also walking somewhere near the courthouse.  (source)
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    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)
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    One of many candid camera shots taken during the play "Goodbye, My Fancy," presented by the Vail-Deane School Dramatic Club, assisted by the Pingry Players.  (source)
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    Ken Childs, a boy I liked, had shot almost a whole roll of film, snapping candids of me in various poses throughout his apartment.†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
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    Edgar scrutinized the posed group shots and candids—the football team, the farm club, the choral group, the crowd in the cafeteria.†  (source)
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    The day after Tyler took the candid shots of our student bodies began like any other.  (source)
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    The yearbook candids were of nothing but us.†  (source)
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