untransparent
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- adjective
- /ʌntrænˈspɛrənt/
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- Most importantly, the IPCC, including its summary for policymakers, hid the decline through the highly untransparent offices of Mann and friends.
Examples
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Her untransparent behavior during the meeting raised suspicions among the team about her true intentions.
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The U.N. budget is "utterly opaque, untransparent, and completely in the shadow" and would benefit from being consolidated and audited from the outside.
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Let me within a within a group of very untransparent countries companies, the US companies are at the bottom.
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I especially loved the relationship to her sisters and father, this distant and untransparent man, as well as Dogger, who is a mystery of his own.
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UN/UNDP's budgets are untransparent!
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I am sure the outrage was just as profound, and you rallied everyone together to stop the "inconsistent, untransparent, and hypocritical application of" policies by CBS.
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The company's untransparent policies made employees feel distrustful and kept them in the dark about important decisions.
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Many citizens protested against the government's untransparent actions, calling for greater accountability and openness.
Synonyms
Not open or honest about information and decisions
Something that is not honest or open and hides the truth
Not easy to see through or understand, for example dark glass and secret decisions
Antonyms
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
untransparent = transparent (transparent) = un + transparent
The adjective 'transparent' can mean 'open' or 'honest'; negation with 'un-' yields the expected opposite meaning 'not open or honest'.
Etymology
Untransparent comes from the parts un- 'not' and transparent 'clear' or 'easy to see', so it literally means 'not clear'. That's why we use untransparent for decisions or statements that hide information and are not open or honest.