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Type Words
Synonyms candor, fair-mindedness, fairness
Type of impartiality, nonpartisanship
Type Words
Synonyms candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness
Type of honestness, honesty
Has types ingenuousness

Examples of candour

candour
He chats with wit and candour about most things in life, including his failures.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Like all Athill's books, it's a work of wonderful, apparently throw-away candour.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
She also had more complex reasons which, with her usual candour, she didn't hide.
From the economist.com
Even some of the more hardened hands were quick to applaud her pluck and candour.
From the smh.com.au
Now it is advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell who may live to regret his candour.
From the independent.co.uk
Another factor is the boldness and candour with which she portrays the human form.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Bad English in her case, as in Alex's, allows for a kind of disarming candour.
From the guardian.co.uk
She shouldn't have been allowed on the road,'said Morgan with bracing candour.
From the metro.co.uk
Instead he has given us honesty without humility, candour without contrition.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Candor: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  • Fairness: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty
  • Candour is a British far right-wing magazine founded and edited by A.K. Chesterton until his death in 1973. It was founded in 1953 as the successor to Truth magazine of which he had been deputy editor. ...
  • Alternative spelling of candor