unfrank

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ frank

Adjective

unfrank (comparative more unfrank, superlative most unfrank)

  1. Not frank.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
      That unknown, approaching thing, seemeth ever ill, my brother, which must have unfrank heralds to go before.
    • 1926, Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship (1979 ed., page 72)
      Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition.