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candour

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noun

  1. the quality of being open and honest; frankness
  2. fairness; impartiality
  3. obsolete.
    purity or brightness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of candour1

C17: from Latin candor, from ³¦²¹²Ô»åŧ°ù±ð to be white, shine
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At one point, a senator said to her: "Please mayor, a little more candour than you have shown so far in answering some of the important questions."

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"I'm both ignorant and confident," he says with wry candour.

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In court filings, they criticised the "total inadequacy" of the MoD's disclosure, calling it an "an obvious failure to comply with the duty of candour and to provide necessary explanation" of the process.

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Her mother encouraged her choice of career, albeit with brutal candour.

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It demands complete candour from healthcare professionals, clinicians, nurses and from hospital staff and also from trust management.

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