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noun

candor

the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness

In a sentence

Six example sentences with candor, each labelled with its topic.

  • Staff had waited a year for that candor: the chief executive said plainly that the product had failed, and why.

    Business

  • Therapists earn candor slowly; a client who deflects for six sessions may say the true thing in the seventh.

    Psychology

  • Montaigne's essays still surprise readers with their candor about his own fears, digestion and wandering attention.

    Literature

  • Voters rewarded her candor when she admitted the road project was over budget and said by exactly how much.

    Politics

  • The coach's candor at halftime, naming who had stopped running, turned the second half around.

    Basketball

  • Investors valued the founder's candor in the update, since a plain account of a bad quarter beats spin.

    Startups

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