0 the quality of being honest and telling the truth, especially about a difficult or embarrassing subject:
"We really don't know what to do about it," she said with surprising candor.
1 the quality of being honest, sincere, and kind in dealing with other people:
"We want to help but really don’t know how," she said with surprising candor.
Candor about these aims is a sine qua non of any useful debate over the legitimacy of the methods used to advance them.
The candor with which these seasoned practitioners addressed the "edge of viability" was quite impressive.
The judge can exhibit similar candor if he instead believes that the procedural infraction freed a borderline case of a guilty man.
Finally, public awareness campaigns have taken on a new level of sophistication and candor.
But his characteristic candor succeeded in pushing students and researchers toward excellence-a standard that he demanded of himself.
His candor is charming; his freedom from the stodgy, refreshing.
Physicians in their fiduciary role owe their patients duties of loyalty, good faith, trust, special confidence, and candor.
From this perspective, cleverness is a dangerous threat to candor and friendship (sw adaqa).