All 9 Uses of
candid
in
Crime and Punishment
- He was an exceptionally good-humoured and candid youth, good-natured to the point of simplicity, though both depth and dignity lay concealed under that simplicity.†
Chpt 1.4
- On Pulcheria Alexandrovna's anxiously and timidly inquiring as to "some suspicion of insanity," he replied with a composed and candid smile that his words had been exaggerated; that certainly the patient had some fixed idea, something approaching a monomania—he, Zossimov, was now particularly studying this interesting branch of medicine—but that it must be recollected that until to-day the patient had been in delirium and…. and that no doubt the presence of his family would have a…†
Chpt 3.1
- tell me your candid opinion
Chpt 3.2 *candid = honest and straightforward
- I tell you so candidly.†
Chpt 3.3
- Now she was a modestly and poorly-dressed young girl, very young, indeed, almost like a child, with a modest and refined manner, with a candid but somewhat frightened-looking face.†
Chpt 3.4
- I—listen to an old man—am speaking seriously, Rodion Romanovitch" (as he said this Porfiry Petrovitch, who was scarcely five-and-thirty, actually seemed to have grown old; even his voice changed and he seemed to shrink together) "Moreover, I'm a candid man…. am I a candid man or not?†
Chpt 4.5
- I—listen to an old man—am speaking seriously, Rodion Romanovitch" (as he said this Porfiry Petrovitch, who was scarcely five-and-thirty, actually seemed to have grown old; even his voice changed and he seemed to shrink together) "Moreover, I'm a candid man…. am I a candid man or not?†
Chpt 4.5
- And I have myself admitted candidly several times already that that psychology can be taken in two ways and that the second way is stronger and looks far more probable, and that apart from that I have as yet nothing against you.†
Chpt 6.2
- "Quite so," Svidrigailov smiled with engaging candour.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(candid as in: your candid opinion) honest and direct