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  1. adjective Free from prejudice; impartial.
  2. adjective Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward: In private, I gave them my candid opinion. See Synonyms at frank1.
  3. adjective Not posed or rehearsed: a candid snapshot.
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  • Gleaning the papers in search of that which is really useful, candid, and fair seems too much like hunting for grains of wheat in a chaos of chaff. —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
  • It is to be ready some time in September — I mean the MS. — and I am most anxious upon every account to make it as good as possible, one very great reason being the fair, candid, and liberal conduct of the intended publishers. —  What I Remember
  • But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • 'according to knowledge [378],' and should be obliged to him for 'a reason [379], 'he was so candid, and expressed himself so well, that I begged of him to repeat what he had said, and I wrote down as follows: — —  Life Of Johnson
  • The Boss's guy. —  The Zero
 

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  1. Latin candidus, glowing, white, pure, guileless, from candēre, to shine; see kand- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French candide = Spanish Portuguese Italian candido, from Latin candidus, bright, radiant, pure, clear, sincere, frank, from candēre, shine, glitter, glisten, be bright, be white, glow, glow with heat (in comp. accenděre and incenděre, set on fire: see accend, incense, incendiary, etc.), akin to Greek ξανθός, golden-yellow (see xantho-), καθαρός, clear, clean, pure (see cathartic), LGr. κάνδαρος, a coal, and to Sanskrit çchandra, chandra, shining, chandra, chandramas, the moon, from ✓ çchand, chand, orig. *skandh, shine. Hence also (from Latin candēre) candle, q. v.
 

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