All 4 Uses
candid
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Pride and Prejudice
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- Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.†
p. 16.9 *candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
- 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.†
p. 17.1
- 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.†
p. 136.6candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
- who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!†
p. 202.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(candid as in: your candid opinion) honest and direct
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(2)
(candid as in: a candid photograph) unposed -- typically said of a photograph
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)