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... lest this history should be chargeable with incon­ stancy and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt...

Curiosi ty, 404

CONSTITUTIONAL — UNCONSTITUTIONAL

“This is even more unconstitutional,” said the Mag­ istrate...

Posthumous, 376

Of course, there are different forms of capitalist rule. There are constitutional and unconstitutional mon­ archies, democratic and undemocratic republics, personal and fascist dictatorships.

D. W., Febr. 2, 1963

CONTENTED — DISCONTENTED

CONTENTEDLY — DISCONTENTEDLY

CONTENT — DISCONTENT

CONTENTMENT — DISCONTENTMENT

Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented.

Curiosity, 30

We gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood' of human beings, and that they were vexed and dis­ contented.

Three, 141

The two waitresses standing behind Kath were talking discontentedly about wages...

Hullo, 61

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Importance, 132

... this winter of our discontent may have dimmed our memories of last summer’s damps and chills...

D. W., Febr. 6, 1963

He thinks people can’t become continent except through being excessively incontinent.

Spoon, 131

He... incontinently drew his truncheon and smote Ted­ dy Henfrey savagely upon the crown of his head.

Invisible, 55

... when she came to him... he had incontinently yield­ ed.

Wisdom, 151

CONTINUE — DISCONTINUE

... his discontinuing to insist on her wearing the jewels...

disarmed her by touching sympathies.

Egoist, 130

Why did Biederkopf... discontinue the machinegunning of the remaining prisoners..?

Crusaders, 549

CONTROLLED — UNCONTROLLED

CONTROLLABLE — UNCONTROLLABLE

Emotionally more uncontrolled, and less sense of form

than either of those others...

I Wish, 81

... she had an uncontrollable desire to laugh.

Crusaders, 198

CONTROVERTIBLE — INCONTROVERTIBLE

CONVENIENT — INCONVENIENT

CONVENIENTLY — INCONVENIENTLY

CONVENIENCE — INCONVENIENCE

... he preferred to ignore inconvenient details.

Hullo, 54

The house was in a square at Chiswick, old and incon­ venient.

Poor Man, 173

... he... would by no means dirty his feet or hurry him­ self Inconveniently.

Curiosity, 181

If you will think only of one trifling aspect — the in­ convenience it must be to us to explain your absence

— I think you will begin to realize what it all means for us.

Ann, 157

... apologized in careless Russian for the inconvenience and accident.

Diplomat, 16

... but under Queen Ann, a restorative Cherrell, con­ vinced of the millennium, perhaps, and, possibly inconvenienced by the insects had drained all the water.

End, 33

I hope I haven’t inconvenienced you.

Diplomat, 289

CONVENTIONAL — UNCONVENTIONAL

... which courtesy, unconventional and dishonest though it might be, still caused Hegglund to feel that he was a wonderful fellow...

Tragedy, 55

She was a clever woman... beautiful, though a bit un­ conventional in her style of dress...

Stoic, 50

CONVINCED — UNCONVINCED

CONVINCING — UNCONVINCING

CONVINCINGLY — UNCONVINCINGLY

And Clyde, contemplating all that had been said, was still unconvinced.

Tragedy, 487

Martin was equally unconvinced by Anti-tuberculo­ sis week.

Arrowsmith, 225

... nothing but the faith lying in sensation to convince him of his happy fortune (and how unconvincing that may be... we experience even then when we ac­ knowledge that we are most blest)...

Egoist, 583

... but such excuses were unconvincing.

End, 257

“ Perhaps not,’ ’ she said unconvincingly.

Diplomat, 65

CORK — UNCORK

He was uncorking his morning measure of rye whisky.

Way, 464

Another bottle is to follow... It is uncorked.

Egoist, 234

CORRECT — INCORRECT

CORRECTLY — INCORRECTLY

CORRECTED — UNCORRECTED

CORRIGIBLE — INCORRIGIBLE

It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect.

Moreau, 3

“Well, then,” he went on, slightly reduced by the fact that his surmise was incorrect...

Tragedy, 424

I made a thorough hash of my lines, mispronouncing the simplest words and emphasizing almost every sentence incorrectly.

Room, 61

She could think of him in pleasant liberty, uncorrected by her woman’s instinct of peril.

Egoist, 101

We can make some mistakes, but we can’t afford to leave them uncorrected.

Diplomat, 534

She is quite incorrigible, Gerald.

Importance, 153

How incorrigible was that prepossession.

End, 208

COVER — UNCOVER

But you cannot turn Scott off that easily, and he uncov­ ered most of it.

I Wish, 62

... killing his efforts to uncover the truth.

Crusaders, 313

CREDULOUS — INCREDULOUS

CREDULOUSLY — INCREDULOUSLY

CREDULITY — INCREDULITY

The story that it had originated in Robinson, credible or incredible, had been shameful for me to hear...

Homecoming, 35

For her, the sight of him was so amazing, so incredible, as to be, for some moments at least, terrible.

Food, 212

...suddenly she paused, with incredulous awestruck eyes.

sometimes expressing his surprise and incredulity.

Curiosity, 208

...it was still with manifest incredulity that they set about the building of the hut...

Marriage, 460

CREDITABLE — DISCREDITABLE

Her mother, sensitive and secluded, was just shrinking from publicity discreditable to Clare.

Tragedy, 39

and his tight-folded arms and clearing of the throat, were faint indications of his condition.

Egoist, 302

He suddenly uncrossed his arms, shook his head from side to side and began to walk rapidly on.

End, 227

CULTURED — UNCULTURED

Uncultured man loves the pleasures of the senses immense­ ly; as he becomes cultured, he begins to love intel­ lectual pleasures...

Stoic, 381

How characteristic! The uncultured bore scorning sci­ ence!

Tomorrow, 328

CURABLE — INCURABLE

To this day they and their children are incurable!

Tomorrow, 324

The dark state to which her incurable passion for him had brought her now pained her terribly.

Tragedy, 367

CURIOUS — a) INCURIOUS b) UNCURIOUS CURIOUSLY — INCURIOUSLY

CURIOSITY — INCURIOSITY

He’s done well out of something,, Kit thought, curious and» incurious, resolved not to de drawn into the world of Swinton business calculations.

Spring, 79

She was also a friend of Lucie’s but she was not curious about him. She was the most uncurious of Nabatat English women...

/ Wish, 191

She saw only a man sitting on the edge of the bunk and incuriously studying the toes of his mocassins.

Lodging, 83

Not incuriously, he was swiftly recognized for what he was by all who came in touch with the magazine.

Maupassant, 52

Because men who lived their kind of lives learned early that incuriosity is, at certain times, just as important or more so than curiosity is at others.

if her daughter had not hastened in to undeceive her...

Curiosity, 429

You will compel me to follow, and undeceive him.

Egoist, 473

DECENT — INDECENT

DECENTLY — INDECENTLY

DECENCY — INDECENCY

... it was almost indecent to let his mind play around

her...

Crusaders, 235

I won’t be angry even if it’s indecent.

Room, 75

... Ann Veronica at once went back with the hold-all, trying not to hurry indecently...

Ann, 96

Abyss, 373

After that, the Food of the Gods sounded blatant to the pitch of indecency.

“

...these secretive ways not an indecency, a reproach to him, but only a piteous necessity.

Hatter's, 442

DECIDED — UNDECIDED

DECIDEDLY — UNDECIDEDLY

DECISIVE — INDECISIVE

DECISIVELY — INDECISIVELY

DECISIVENESS — INDECISIVENESS

DECISION — INDECISION

Essex had a way of making a man undecided.

Diplomat, 131

He shuffled the papers on his desk in an undecided yet intent kind of way...

Room, 158

“Please rise,11 said Sophia, her hands fidgeting unde­ cidedly.

Wives, 434

They looked around undecidedly.

Hatter's, 60

Katherine admired him for if and would always choose him in his decisive moments in preference to an in­

decisive MacGregor.

Diplomat, 405

He... directed a certain portion of his capital to largely indecisive but on the whole unprofitable speculations in South African and South American enterprises.

Marriage, 32

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He bent his brows angrily, rubbed his chin indeci­ sively.

Hatter’s, 439

“More than anything else,’ ’ she said to him, “ your mo­ ments of indecisiveness anger me.’ ’

“ Too early,” said Sir Lawrence, “ owing to daylight saving indecorum isn’t billed till eight...”

End, 62

DEFENDED — UNDEFENDED

DEFENSIBLE — INDEFENSIBLE

Her face seemed so natural and undefended that it gave her a shock.

End, 142

...if you found the sector in front of your company un­ defended... wouldn’t you move in?

Crusaders, 416

...something in her character that might have suggested to Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson her indefensible, ab­ surd ‘rogue in porcelain’.

Egoist, 117