All 6 Uses of
candid
in
The Age of Innocence
- "He's an awful brute, isn't he?" continued the young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady's champion.†
Chpt 2
- Miss Welland, evidently about to join the dancers, hung on the threshold, her lilies-of-the-valley in her hand (she carried no other bouquet), her face a little pale, her eyes burning with a candid excitement.†
Chpt 3
- "Now we shan't have to talk," he said, smiling into her candid eyes, as they floated away on the soft waves of the Blue Danube.†
Chpt 3
- She said it in the simplest manner, as if she had said: "He's fond of wild-flowers"; and after a moment she added candidly: "I think he's the dullest man I ever met."†
Chpt 8
- Only the day before he had received a letter from May Welland in which, with characteristic candour, she had asked him to "be kind to Ellen" in their absence.†
Chpt 13
- May met the question with her unshaken candour.
Chpt 32 *candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
Definition:
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(candid as in: your candid opinion) honest and direct