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Nathaniel Mugford who had founded Mugford College

Just bordering, or as one may say, remotely verging, upon the confines of injudiciousness...

■ Curiosity, 534

JUST — UNJUST

JUSTICE — INJUSTICE

The A. F. of L. top leaders, as loyal servitors of capi­ talism, unquestionably support all wars, just or un­ just, declared by the capitalist class and its govern­ ment.

Outline, 536

... as the rain falls upon the just and unjust alike, it shed its warm tint even upon the resting places of the dead.

Curiosity, 145

My only point was that we are no longer fighting injus­ tice.

I Wish, 107

To them it was the acme of injustice.

Wisdom, 154

KIND — UNKIND

KINDLY — UNKINDLY

KINDNESS — UNKINDNESS

... this much I will say, be it kind or unkind.

Treasure, 196

Did he become angry with you, and say anything that was unkind or true?

Clare thanked Sir Willoughby for the kindness of think­ ing of her father, mentally analysing the kindness, in which at least she found no unkindness, scarcely egoism, though she knew it to be there.

Egoist, 134

KNOWN — UNKNOWN

KNOWING — UNKNOWING

KNOWINGLY — UNKNOWINGLY

She stabbed the unknown enemy with the fork.

Hullo, 64

That a wife should accept her husband’s embrace, was not, of course, unknown.

End, 252

I remained standing on the spot where he had left me: unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.

Curiosity, 20

By this plan I made a mighty friend, quite unknow­

ingly...

Lorna, 297

...the spontaneous words had rushed from him unknow­

ingly...

... boots that were... unlaced so far down on his ankles.

I Wish, 45

LADYLIKE — UNLADYLIKE

She blushed darkly now at her unladylike and unpardon­ able conduct...

Hatter’s, 51

She muttered some unladylike comment upon herself under her breath and engaged in secret additions.

Ann, 258

LATCH — UNLATCH

The German major looked obliquely at Yates, his slen­ der fingers latching and unlatching.

Crusaders, 485

Unlatching the door, Dinny went into the groundfloor room.

End, 104

LAWFUL — UNLAWFUL

LAWFULLY — UNLAWFULLY

Visions... of the nightly absence from home... having been occasioned by some unlawful pursuit flocked into her brain...

Curiosity, 101

... the storing of unlawful arms...

Lorna, 112

Instantly upon the final and definite cessation of the lawful supply of money, he had set his wits to obtain money unlawfully.

Wives, 395

LEGAL — ILLEGAL

LEGALLY — ILLEGALLY

LEGALITY — ILLEGALITY

They rallied the Negro people and their allies against the lynchers, legal and illegal.

Outline, 366

Does any modern girl believe that the legal and illegal ways of getting money are the honest and dishonest ways?

It’s my business that I am being held illegally in jail.

Tomorrow, 187

He began... to comprehend how small a part mere sen-

.suality, how large a part the spirit of adventure'and the craving for illegality, may play, in the lives of those who are called evil livers.

Marriage, 399

LEGIBLE — ILLEGIBLE

... Emily’s signature, as the other bridesmaid, is nearly

illegible...

Posthumous, 433

... here the scrawl became illegible...

Marriage, 253

LEGITIMATE — ILLEGITIMATE

LEGITIMACY — ILLEGITIMACY

... he seemed to rejoice in his fraternity of the quiet, pretty illegitimate creature.

Poor Man, 39

Then just look at my family: the most illegitimate family in England.

Diplomat, 98

For apparently now here was illegitimacy and disgrace for Roberta.

He ran the unlighted cigar slowly back and forth under his nose...

Tomorrow, 323

LIKE — UNLIKE

LIKELY — UNLIKELY

LIKENESS — UNLIKENESS

I thought it not unlikely that he might speak to me

about the letter...

Bleak, 631

In walking with her, in drooping to her, the whole man was made conscious of the female image of himself by her exquisite unlikeness.

Egoist, 66

LIKE — DISLIKE

LIKES — DISLIKES

LIKINGS — DISLI KINGS LIKABLE — a) DISLIKABLE

b) UNLIKABLE

That’s what I like about you, sergeant: you have confi­ dence. It’s also what I dislike about you.

From Here, 116

He liked Eric’s vitality because it wasn’t brashness, and yet he disliked that same quality because he

It’s a matter of daily wrapping ourselves up more and more in ideas and feelings, likes and dislikes, that gradually draw us apart...

Spring, 543

He can’t help his likings and dislikings, perhaps.

LIMITED — UNLIMITED Our respect for men of science is unlimited.

Diplomat, 423

... he was the colonel’s closest collaborator and prob­ ably enjoyed the old man’s unlimited confidence.

LOAD — UNLOAD

••• they flung themselves on the ships, loaded or unload­ ed them, carried bales and, sacks and cases of all sorts to and fro...

Spring, 491

He... watched the men unloading their waggons.

Picture, 117

LOCK — UNLOCK

None went near them, either to lock or unlock.

Yankee, 239

... there was a noise of a drawer being unlocked and locked again.

Homecoming, 52

LOGICAL — ILLOGICAL

LOGIC — ILLOGIC

How utterly illogical you are!

Importance, 132

So that was an extra torment — illogical, but there, indisputably, the fact was.

Room, 139

Ira believed that he could bring even medical students to bliss, which, to Ira, meant singing extraordinar­ ily long and unlovely hymns...

Arrowsmith, 14

LOYAL —.DISLOYAL

LOYALTY — DISLOYALTY

Jack’s been so loyal to me, I can hardly be disloyal to him.

Heroes, 232

... she couldn't feel she was being disloyal to Alec.

Hullo, 159

He has not by word or sign hinted a disloyalty.

Egoist, 424

Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.

Importance, 325

LUCKY — UNLUCKY

LUCKILY — UNLUCKILY

A great number of men of our generation died prema­ turely. We are unlucky or lucky enough to remain.

Death, 23

Speaking about someone who’s lucky, I remember some­ one who was so unlucky it .was funny as the devil.

And unluckily for the bandits... a police car was parked just across the road...

D. W., Oct. 1, 1963

MAKE — UNMAKE

It’s done, William, it’s done. Our fortunes are made, or unmade.

Spring, 301

When you go on creating on a masterpiece that is already created, you don’t make it more of a masterpiece, you unmake it.

From Here, 671

MANAGEABLE — UNMANAGEABLE

MANAGING — UNMANAGING

... they are necessarily here and there dainty daring youth, sometimes unmanageable...

Egoist, 36

... they were unmanageable now...

Crusaders, 616

Coming from her gentle and unmanaglng mother, the words stung.

Hullo, 19

But what harm could it do — married or unmarried?

Tragedy, 504

MATERIAL — IMMATERIAL

His whole material and immaterial life is wonderfully strange; his death, the strangest thing of all.

Bleak, 232

Nor did he cherish silent bitterness. It was immaterial.

Thousand, 94

MATU RE — IMMATU RE

MATURITY — IMMATURITY

His mind is a mature, not an immature one.

Tragedy, II, 162

... of the same immature and ingenuous, but none the less innate weakness.

Hatter’s, 27

... he had been drawn to her in her helplessness and immaturity...

Hatter’s, 599

This striving for perfection is a sign of immaturity.

D. W., Sept. 28, 1963

MEASURED — UNMEASURED

MEASURABLE — IMMEASURABLE

From this measured reflection he was abruptly trans­ ferred to feelings unmeasured.

Hullo, 28