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There is no pleasing you, Mr. Mangan. You are determined to be neither rich nor poor, honest or dishonest.

Heartbreak, 231

I have done no more than my duty, though I did it dishonestly...

Lorna, 274

To make no distinction between honesty and dishonesty would be quite unfair.

White, 56

He wondered if he would ever be able to find her honesty without stirring the memory of her dishonesty.

Diplomat, 384

... honour, like freedom, is a luxury for those with independent incomes, but there is a limit to dishon­ our...

Room, 235

Is it being a good wife to oppose your husband’s busi­ ness? Is it honouring your husband to dishonour his business?

Tale, 190

...to wipe out with one blow her obliquity and his dishonour.

Hatter's, 201

A weakness? Call it so. Not a dishonourable weakness.

Egoist, 366

There is nothing dishonourable about it, Dinny.

End, 196

HOOK — UNHOOK

...the genial frame-maker, beginning... to unhook the

Sam unhooked the Bredas from the mounting on the trucks...

I Wish, 53

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H O S P IT A B L E 172 H U R R I E D

HOSPITABLE — INHOSPITABLE

Immediately below this tower stood the narrow door­ way of the house, the lesser, proportion of its width giving it a meagre, inhospitable look, like a thin repellent mouth...

... how could we pick up all the threads then... if we weren’t on the job all the time, being inhuman, accord­ ing to you?

Wives, 374

HUMOROUS — UNHUMOROUS

He was becoming like Katherine — planning humorous situations at unhumorous moments.

Diplomat, 440

Mrs. Tozer opened the door and stared at him plain­ tively — a thin, faded, unhumorous woman.

D iplom at, 561•

... he was unhurried and had time to answer special questions and wise cracks...

Crusaders, 502

IDENTIFIABLE — UNIDENTIFIABLE

IDENTIFIED — UNIDENTIFIED

The parts were not only interchangeable, they were unidentifiable.

Cannery, 55

It was an unidentifiable figure on a smal.1 horse who stopped the noise and argument.

Diplomat, 315

He had no sport but tennis, at which he was too rusty to play with these chattering unidentified people...

Arrowsmith, 409

What proved to be a fatal boat ride for two, apparently, was taken here day before by an unidentified man and girl...

Tragedy, 459

ILLUMINATED — UNILLUMINATED

Sir Willoughby nodded unilluminated.

Egoist, 68

Indeed, in his immature and really psychically unilluminated mind it suddenly evoked a mood which was as of roses, perfumes, lights and music.

Tragedy, 200

ILLUSION - DISILLUSION

I had a sort of eagerness and lack of disillusion which more than made up for the coat and hat...

Room, 18

The stark disillusion of such a sharp contrast was too much for Berenice to comprehend.

Stoic, 384

IMAGINABLE — UNIMAGINABLE IMAGINATIVE — UNIMAGINATIVE IMAGINATIVELY — UNIMAGINATIVELY

... and proceeded to array myself in the clothes of the other and unimaginable man...

Abyss, 360

Deep in her mind was the conviction that he had simple access to profound, almost unimaginable wisdom.

Pounds, 157

A persistent, unimaginative besetting of Marjorie, a growing air of ownership, an expansive, indulgent, smiling disposition to thwart and control.

IMPAIRED — UNIMPAIRED

... he became aware of his remaining boot, of which, with unimpaired solemnity he proceeded to divest

himself...

Curiosity, 499

...a sense which Constance and Sophia had acquired in infancy, remained with them almost unimpaired as they grew old.

Wives, 64

IMPEACHABLE — UNIMPEACHABLE

Be sure of this: Willoughby Patterne is a man of unim­ peachable honour.

Egoist, 413

... a man who could speak three or four languages, whose background was unimpeachable even by Tory stand­ ards.

Diplomat, 599

Clyde probably drew his lesser force from the personal unimportance of his parents.

Tragedy, 2Q)

IMPRESSED — UNIMPRESSED

IMPRESSIVE — UNIMPRESSIVE

The guard was frowning and unimpressed.

Diplomat, 43

“That may be true,” bluffed Mr. Johnson, a little testily and seemingly unimpressed...

Stoic, 105

It was of course the sole means of his livelihood, the unimpressive source of his stately and inspiring habi­

tation...

Hatter's, 75

He had not expected an unimpressive building and a silent-mouthed guard...

■ Diplomat, 44

INCLINED — DISINCLINED

INCLINATION — DISINCLINATION

Hullo, 81

Mr. Magnet, who seemed disinclined to give an answer, turned the subject by saying he had to prepare an address on humour for the next dinner of the Literati.

Three, 13

Dr. Middleton thought it reasonable, supposing his daughter to have an inclination. She had no disincli­ nation, though she had a maidenly desire to see a little of the world...

Egoist, 62

INDOOR — OUTDOOR

As platform speaker or chairman he had taken an active and dangerous part in the' many indoor and outdoor pro-Boer meetings.

Abyss, 369

He had known her as a jacketed outdoor girl, but this was an exquisite indoor Madeline...

Arrowsmtth, 43

INFORMED — UNINFORMED

He was saved a non-committal or totally uninformed answer by Sondra...

Tragedy, 339

She was too easily frightened — too uninformed — not daring enough.

Typhoon, 83

INHABITABLE — UNINHABITABLE

INHABITED — UNINHABITED

... and the result of that willsoon be that we shall creep and crawl, and end up in the sea when land’s uninhabitable.

End, 194

... the Germans plan to leave us nothing but bare fields and uninhabitable ruins.

Crusaders, 423

And a youth making his way through a dark, uninhabit­ ed wood...

Tragedy, 515

... they fled south in the night time, hiding by day on detached and uninhabited islets...

Mauki, 195

INITIATED — UNINITIATED

... she liked to play the ignorant, uninitiated little thing.

Wives, 344

.. an incoming guest, whose white whiskers and youth­ ful, bright tweed suit were visible to Clyde’s unini­ tiated eyes a hundred feet away.

Tragedy, 46

INSIDE — OUTSIDE

And also, he explained that the management demanded of all boys that they look well outside as well as inside the hotel.

Tragedy, 58

... instead of being one people against an outside enemy, we are two peoples against the inside enemy of our­ selves...

End, 14

INSPIRING — UNINSPIRING

INSPIRED — UNINSPIRED

Tomorrow, 221

... he thought of the coming torture-wheel of uninspir­ ing work...

Arrowsmith, 88

The male soloist sang long uninspired passages from a Requiem by Berlioz.

Tomorrow, 195

During his uninspired fumbling, there had been nothing to hold him at the Institute after five...

Arrowsmith, 434

INTEGRATE — DISINTEGRATE

He disintegrated before his eyes.

Crusaders, 376

... watching a Wimpey scarcely a wing-tip away disin­ tegrate into rather gaudy green and orange flames...

Room, 32

INTELLIGIBLE — UNINTELLIGIBLE INTELLIGIBLY — UNINTELLIGIBLY INTELLIGENT — UNINTELLIGENT INTELLIGENTLY — UNINTELLIGENTLY

Luckily the bawdy shouts were unintelligible.

Hullo, 155

Wilfrid is one of the most perverse, complex, unintelli­ gible natures one could come across.

End, 382

He spluttered unintelligibly, shook his head and looked very miserable.

gent men were unfortunately those men who did not seem to care at all.

D iplom at, 29

He was the one intelligent man on twenty unintelli­ gent committees...

Brown, 363

Intelligently or unintelligently, I try to follow the line of self-interest, because, as I see it, there is no other guide.

Stoic, 25

INTENTIONAL — UNINTENTIONAL

INTENTIONALLY — UNINTENTIONALLY

INTENDED — UNINTENDED

Strike or hit is the word for a single blow, forcible, sud­ den contact or impact, intentional or unintentional.

Synonyms, 115

MacGregor had intended to remain quiet about the horses, but he was annoyed by Essex’s unintentional snobbery in assuming him to be ignorant of horseflesh.

Diplomat, 399

Mr. Quilp unintentionally adopted the very best means he could’ have devised for the recovery of his young visitor.

Curiosity, 64

Mr. Middleton... picked up the conversation he had unintentionally prostrated...

INTERESTED — a) DISINTERESTED b) UNINTERESTED

INTERESTEDLY — a) DISINTERESTEDLY b) UNINTERESTEDLY

INTERESTING — UNINTERESTING

INTEREST — DISINTEREST

... the contemptuous and yet rather inviting way in which they looked to see if he was interested or dis­ interested, brave or cowardly.

Tragedy, 23

He flung aside all this talk of help and disinterested friendship...

Ann, 207

He was still mysterious, withdrawn within himself, extraordinarily uninterested in his physical surround­ ing.

Wives, 568

The man thought it might be Bill, but he thought in a dull, uninterested way.

Love, 34

Disinterestedly or interestedly they wax over-eager for the little trifles, and make too much of them.

Egoist, 279

Haythorne, finishing his mug of coffee, grunted uninter­ estedly and lighted his pipe.

Lodging, 86

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and con­ sequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Picture, 82

Oh, what a very uninteresting correspondence.

INTERRUPTED — UNINTERRUPTED

Quiet and solitude were destined to hold uninterrupted rule no longer, beneath the roof that sheltered the child.

Curiosity, 102

... he had an almost uninterrupted opportunity of study­ ing these girls at close range.

Tragedy, 31