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He always brought disturbance and dissatisfaction and wild thinking, and no one was safe from his insidi­ ous charm.

Diplomat, 40

SAVOURY — UNSAVOURY

He reminded one of everything that is unsavoury.

Jim, 266

Every reader of a newspaper felt that the more he or she heard about what was doubtful, sensational and unsavoury, the better for his or her soul.

End, 244

SAY — UNSAY

... his watchfulness of everything that Mr. Jonas said and did, and left unsaid and undone.

a little bit longer and everything will be as clear as daylight...

Food, 12

SCRUPULOUS — UNSCRUPULOUS SCRUPULOUSLY — UNSCRUPULOUSLY

The intense resolve to keep Mrs. Baines, by methods

scrupulous or unscrupulous, away from Bursley...

Wives, 216

Cain is not only absolutely unscrupulous in his fairy­ tales...

Tomorrow, 158

... unmercifully exploited for its riches and loaned unscrupulously as a springboard for attack on Rus­ sia by larger powers.

Diplomat, 142

SEASONABLE — UNSEASONABLE

And mind, too, that I don’t pounce in upon you at unseasonable hours again...

Curiosity, 429

If was a fine evening for the time of the year, with an unseasonable soapy warmth trickling along the mean little streets...

Room, 247

SEAT — UNSEAT

I think, Sir, we are not on the Bench when we say that we abhor: we have unseated ourselves.

Egoist, 482

And the blow was sufficient at the moment to half unseat the romantic and all but febrile reason of the girl...

Typhoon, 85

SECURE — INSECURE

SECURELY — INSECURELY

SECURITY — INSECURITY

... and about midnight, the picture would be up —

very crooked and insecure...

Three, 31

There’s blood on everyone’s hands, that’s what it

amounts to... everything so damned insecure...

Room, 118

.‘To let-’ notices hung in their stained and dirty upper windows, and clung insecurely to their closed shut­

ters.

Wives, 540

As far as he was aware... utter insecurity for life and property was the normal condition.

Jim, 219

A tremour of insecurity went through her.

End, 373

SEEMLY — UNSEEMLY

This laughter is unseemly.

Jim, 356

... his eyes constantly gauging the progress of the sun, which tore up the eastern slope of the heavens with unseemly haste.

Gash, 74

SELFISH — UNSELFISH

SELFISHLY — UNSELFISHLY

SELFISHNESS — UNSELFISHNESS

The love of a mother for her children is dominant, leo­ nine, selfish and unselfish.

Financier, 241

I had many reasons, both selfish and unselfish, for not giving them unnecessary openings.

Homecoming, 113

... being no occupation or profession more unselfishly appreciative of each other's virtues than the medical gentlemen...

Lady, 84

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. to love, oh! no — no shape of man, nor impalpable nature either: but to love unselfishness, and helpful­ ness, and planted strength in something.

Egoist, 245

SENSITIVE — INSENSITIVE

The sensitive recoil and that leaves them mainly to the insensitive, and God help them!

End, 329

“I'm an insensitive, crass, boorish, ill-mannered old fool,” he said.

Room, 33

SENTIMENTAL — UNSENTIMENTAL

But things are so obstinately, so incurably unsentimen­ tal.

Wives, 208

... an intellectual savage like himself, who with some weird desire to appear forceful, definite, unsenti­ mental perhaps... had told him to go home and to

bed...

Maupassant, 64

SEPARABLE — INSEPARABLE

The other — that was he who took the money — had rather a careful and cautious look, which was perhaps inseparable from his occupation also.

Curiosity, 147

... the lepers and the beggers — they were all insepa­ rable from the mountains.

Diplomat, 260

SERVICE — DISSERVICE

You’ve done John Asquith a terrible disservice, Mac­ Gregor, dragging him into this.

Diplomat, 549

It would be a grave disservice if... items on these themes will not be debated...

D. W., Sept. 30, 1963

SETTLE — UNSETTLE

The slightest disturbance of the wanted course of things

unsettles him.

Egoist, 535

With a cynicism unsettling Loomis, he said...

Crusaders, 426

SHACKLED — UNSHACKLED

She belonged to him; he was quite unshackled by her.

Egoist, 166

Would they like him? They would not — too unshackl­ ed, too fitful, and too bitter...

End, 373

SHAVEN — UNSHAVEN (UNSHAVED)

Essex was unshaven and untidy but he still looked comparatively clean and comfortable.

Diplomat, 459

Crerar came in, unshaved, his grey hair untidy.

Crusaders, 89

SIGNIFICANT — INSIGNIFICANT

SIGNIFICANTLY — INSIGNIFICANTLY

SIGNIFICANCE — INSIGNIFICANCE

Dron, a dejected, insignificant individual, was stand­ ing close behind Perry...

Hatter's, 78

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... they were all merely isolated objects, curious, but insignificant...

I Wish, 52

...one of them became an Oberst, much decorated, one existed insignificantly, and one was dead and stink­ ing in ten days.

Arrowsmith, 303

... and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwit­ tingly labor and insignificantly die.

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... it was given him to see his brother tower above him like a mountain, and to feel himself dwindled and dwarfed to microscopic insignificance.

House, 230

... her fear of Brodie dwarfed this into insignificance...

• Hatter's, 177

SIMILAR — DISSIMILAR

It occurred to me — don’t laugh — that all things being dissimilar, she was more inscrutable in her childish ignorance than the Sphinx.

Jim, 285

Often moody himself, and not for dissimilar reasons,

he could sympathize with her.

Stoic, 194

SINCERE — INSINCERE

SINCERELY — INSINCERELY

SINCERITY — INSINCERITY

I know I have always been honest, a boorish young woman in my stupid mad impatience; but not insin­

cere.

Egoist, 575

But you are not to say foolish, insincere things to people.

Lady, 30

... the exponents of what was called in those days Pro­ gressive Liberalism grew quite sentimental upon the

SOLICITED — UNSOLICITED

... the desert would make of you a desert', if you went into it unsolicited by someone from the tents...

1 Wish, 51

From waking to midnight he was too busy making phage and receiving unsolicited advice...

Arrowsmith, 350

SOLUBLE — INSOLUBLE

SOLVED — UNSOLVED

She is, I fear, what we call an insoluble problem...

End, 165

The horror of his almost Insoluble problem!

Tragedy, 458

In short, time flowed, but the conundrum of existence remained unsolved.

End, 100

At any rate, the problem remains unsolved in my mind.

Egg, 137

SOPHISTICATED — UNSOPHISTICATED

... if I lived in the country for six months, I should be­ come so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

Woman, 99

She wanted to hurt him for his self-centered and un­ sophisticated emotions.

Diplomat, 221

SOUND — UNSOUND

SOUNDNESS — UNSOUNDNESS

The whole theory of modern education is radically un­ sound.

SPOILED — UNSPOILED (UNSPOILT)

A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.

Importance, 297

You were the most unspoiled creature in the whole world.

Picture, 139

Love for him was a thing solemn, simple and unspoilt.

Marriage, 392

SPOKEN — UNSPOKEN

The answer to her unspoken question came like a sigh from a long way off...

Hatter’s, 192

In the unspoken hope that the occupiers would return at some time in the future as paying guests...

Crusaders, 162

SPORTSMANLIKE — UNSPORTSMANLIKE

The crowd began to hiss and boo him for his unsports­ manlike conduct, but he sat unmoved.

Mexican, 330

Adye drew the air in between his teeth sharply, “ It’s

. unsportsmanlike... ’ '

Invisible, 146

SPOTTED — UNSPOTTED

... an honest tradesman of unspotted character...

Wives, 276

He had always the look of one who had kept himself un­ spotted from the world.

Picture, 159

STABLE — UNSTABLE

STABILITY — INSTABILITY

You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium of old Fletcher’s plank and two chairs...

Invisible, 75

has been a theme for masculine humour in all ages, suddenly and with an extraordinary violence didn’t want to make up her mind about Mr. Magnet.

Marriage, 61

STAINED — UNSTAINED

But his honour! His cherished, lifelong integrity, the unstained purity of his principles?

Octopus, 180

He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood...

Picture, 260

STEADY — UNSTEADY

STEADILY — UNSTEADILY

She took an unsteady step forward...

End, 86