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EQUAL — UNEQUAL

EQUALLY — UNEQUALLY

EQUALITY — INEQUALITY

I hope to achieve a peaceful settlement of the unequal situation in Iran.

Diplomat, 127

Pianist, thinking of his wife and family, gives up the

unequal contest and retires...

He attacked the subject of Social Inequality with un­ bounded enthusiasm.

Octopus, 291

But spiritually, there is pure difference and neither equality nor inequality counts.

Women, 95

EQUIVOCAL — UNEQUIVOCAL

EQUIVOCALLY — UNEQUIVOCALLY

...manifesting one month’s after marriage unequivocal

symptoms of the tiger...

Crusaders, 488

Piece, 261

...there was that ineradicable and possibly censurable, yet very human and almost unescapable desire for something more...

...a round object, thrown with unerring accuracy, struck her upon the shoulder...

Hatter’s, 183

EVEN — UNEVEN

EVENLY — UNEVENLY

They kept round it' on the hillside over grass rougher and more uneven.

End, 227

She gripped his hand because of the dark uneven walk­ ing.

Diplomat, 159

The hole a flying coal had burnt in the unevenly faded dark-blue carpet looked larger than it had ever done before...

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EXHAUSTIBLE — INEXHAUSTIBLE

...they bore in their own hearts an inexhaustible well* spring of affection and devotion.

Posthumous, 456

...this was your inexhaustible mine of gold, your Eldo­ rado, eh?

Curiosity, 92

EXPECTED — UNEXPECTED

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Ideal, 238

If came by second post, which made its advent more unexpected.

The city of magic was to become to Martin neither a city nor any sort of magic, but merely a route: their

flat, the subway, the institute, a favoured inexpen­ sive restaurant.

Arrowsmith, 281

••.some way to make her get herself out of if inexpen­ sively and without any real trouble to him.

Tragedy, 417

EXPERIENCED — INEXPERIENCED

EXPERIENCE — INEXPERIENCE

But you are young and inexperienced, and that’s your excuse for asking such a question.

Yet, because of her inexperience, youth and faith thus

The proposal was monstrous, inexplicable, or explicable only by the assumption that his mind, while not un­ hinged, had temporarily lost its balance.

Arrowsmith, 52

It shared something of the nature of that silence through which it accompanied you into unexplored depth...

Jim , 256

EXPRESSIBLE — INEXPRESSIBLE

EXPRESSIVE — INEXPRESSIVE

The death of a close friend in the war was an overwhelm­ ing tragedy that could still cause him fits of inexpres­ sible sorrow.

Diplomat, 367

...the sense of intimacy filled her with inexpressible yearning...

EXTINGUISH ABLE — INEXTINGUISHABLE

Where have I read? — some story — of an inextinguish­ able spark.

Egoist, 578

...he did use his hand, and he did seek iron actualities with a curiosity inextinguishable.

Arrowsmith, 84

FAILING — UNFAILING

“ But you can’t, you know,’ ’ was the unfailing rejoinder.

Abyss, 355

The tick of the clock stabbed her with an unfailing fear.

Hullo, 141

FAIR — UNFAIR

FAIRLY — UNFAIRLY

FAIRNESS — UNFAIRNESS

All was fair in love and war, but this was taking an un­

fair advantage.

Some Came, 289

But you know how unfair people often are.

Woman, 96

For, say what you would, she was certainly acting very unfairly and captiously in all this.

Tragedy, 489

I don’t want, indeed, Sir Ensor Doone, to accuse anyone unfairly.

Lorna, 23

...the anger... had increased over the unfairness of the whole deal...

Crusaders, 378

A feeling of tragic unfairness was with her all the way back to South Square.

End, 174

FAITHFUL — UNFAITHFUL

FAITHFULLY — UNFAITHFULLY

FAITHFULNESS — UNFAITHFULNESS

Hullo, 206

A million Jobs faithfully and unfaithfully pursued...

End, 307

...notwithstanding Laetitia’s praiseworthy zeal in at­

tending on his mother, he suspected some unfaithful­

ness...

Egoist, 57

FALLIBLE — INFALLIBLE

...the infallible flare of the public for anything dra­

matic...

End, 53

And to talk about holidays abroad is one of the almost infallible marks of the stuck up...

Room, 150

FALTERING — UNFALTERING

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known how to follow with unfaltering footsteps ...

Jim , 209

... she had wanted so much to leave imprinted on his mind that image of her unfaltering love and happiness.

To that familiar end he came by an unfamiliar route...

Marriage, 396

Below him flowed a wide and sluggish river. Its in­ familiarity puzzled him.

Love, 32

Her own unfamiliarity and hence fear of it.

Typhoon, 87

FASTEN — UNFASTEN

The bolts of the door were rusty and difficult to unfas­ ten without noise.

Curiosity, 116

Samuel... unfastened the catch of the window...

Wives, 252

FAVOURABLE — UNFAVOURABLE

FAVOURABLY — UNFAVOURABLY

FAVOUR — DISFAVOUR

They put the rules of law, favourable or unfavourable, under the judge’s thumb and nose.

their backs or looked another way, or at the two young men (not unfavourably at them), and let her to her­ self.

Curiosity, 178

Not the least thing must occur in connection with you that anyone can comment on unfavourably.

FETTERED — UNFETTERED

...were he free and unfettered, a few minutes would place him by her side.

Posthumous, 99

It was therefore satisfying to see MacGregor at least physically unfettered by the country which seemed to be his own.

Diplomat, 405

FIDELITY — INFIDELITY

But all things are possible; women are women; they swim in infidelity, from wave to wave.

Egoist, 74

...1 really hadn’t been up to some infidelity!

Poor, 71

FILIAL — UNFILIAL

“I have seen a good deal of what is filial in my times, Sir,” retorted Mould, “ and what is unfilial too.”

Martin, 391

It was most unfilial, but he was like that — so was Mrs. Flynn.

Pomona's, 133

FINISHED— UNFINISHED

...she’d have the excuse to... slip the unfinished letter away...

Hullo, 84

“ No,” she said and left it provokingly unfinished.

Diplomat, 135

FIT — UNFIT

FITTED — UNFITTED

FITTING — UNFITTING

...which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentle­ manly food, but for any human consumption.

Curiosity, 74

Leave my house. You are unfit to enter it.

Ideal, 228

...it was a little unkind as well as idle to thus publicly force upon a temperament as yet unfitted to absorb their import, religious and psychic services...

Tragedy, 13

A good many of the new lock-keepers... are excitable nervous old men quite unfitted for their post.

Three, 201

That was perhaps a theme unfitting to touch upon...

Tribute, 67

FIX — UNFIX

...still fixed by Mr. Carker’s eye, and fruitlessly endeav­ ouring to unfix himself.

Dombey, 11, 182

Her look was cold, wide, unfixed, with nothing of grat­ itude or of personal in it.

Egoist, 282

FLEXIBLE — INFLEXIBLE

FLEXIBLY — INFLEXIBLY

He was inflexible, and with the growing loneliness of his obstinacy his spirit seemed to rise above the ruins of his existence.

Jim , 371

This prodigal use of cold wafer... was his inflexible habit...

Hatter's, 71

Isaac Ford was gone, but he, his son, carried on the good work at least as inflexibly if not as masterfully.

House, 220

FLINCHING — UNFLINCHING

Michael’s eyes were unflinching.

Tomorrow, 292