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Between justice and what was just, what inexorable incompatibility!

End, 269

These are the sort of things that aren’t supposed to hap­ pen. They leave them out of novels — these incom­ patibilities.

Ann, 299

COMPETENT — INCOMPETENT

COMPETENCE — INCOMPETENCE

... she was rather careless and incompetent.

Hullo, 151

... the official, unless he is dishonest, unbelievably dis­ solute, or incompetent to the point of idiocy, is ab­ solutely secure.

Room, 160

... this article became almost symbolical of the prevail­ ing habitual incompetence with which all this sys­ tem of questions is still handled.

Marriage, 381

I’m sick of your blundering incompetence, Brodie.

Hatter’s, 558

COMPLAINING — UNCOMPLAINING

... who sat with the child by his side,— a little more

dejected perhaps, but quite silent and uncomplain­ ing.

Curiosity, 224

... he most embodied the principle of uncomplaining service...

End, 194

COMPLETE — INCOMPLETE

COMPLETED — UNCOMPLETED

... It must be observed, or the illustration would be incomplete...

Curiosity, 441

It showed how dreadfully incomplete was her under­ standing of his true position in this world.

Tragedy, 437

There’s just the lovers — the real enduring lovers; and the uncompleted people who’ve failed to find it.

Marriage, 205

COMPLICATED — UNCOMPLICATED

For a moment Essex was untouched and uncomplicated, and MacGregor understood something about Essex for the first time.

Diplomat, 377

‘‘You beautiful brute,” she said... “ You beautiful uncomplicated brute.”

Room, 113

COMPLIMENTARY — UNCOMPLIMENTARY

“ Well, Marchioness,” said Mr. Swiveller, “ that’s not uncomplimentary. ’ ’

Curiosity, 497

He said uncomplimentary things, called us sons of toads and damned us from hell to breakfast.

Bulls, 302

The look he gave discomposed me, as though I had been responsible for his state...

Jim , 162

... the attempt increased his discomposure.

Egoist, 176

... tobacco smoke always caused him great internal discomposure and annoyance.

Curiosity, 103

COMPREHENSIBLE — INCOMPREHENSIBLE COMPREHENSIBLY — INCOMPREHENSIBLY COMPREHENDING — UNCOMPREHENDING COMPREHENDINGLY — UNCOMPREHENDINGLY

“Then, Mr. Rouncewell,” returns Sir Leicester, “ the application of what you have said is, to me, incom­

prehensible.” — “ Will it be more comprehensible,

Sir Leicester, if I say...”

Bleak, 412

Most of it had been incomprehensible to her, or com­ prehensible in a way that checked further curiosity...

Ann, 101

There is no other way of shunning a marriage she is incomprehensibly but frantically averse to.

Egoist 462

“And the woman is dead now,” he added incomprehen­ sibly.

Jim , 211

She waved them a faintly uncomprehending good-bye...

Batter's, 647

He appeared at first uncomprehending, then confounded, and at last amazed...

Jim , 91

The builder... scratched his head uncomprehendingly with his pencil...

Hatter's, 72

COMPROMISING — UNCOMPROMISING COMPROMISINGLY — UNCOMPROMISINGLY

She had not forgotten the uncompromising way in which eight years ago he had asked her to become his mis­ tress, and the still more uncompromising way in which he had fled from her...

End, 482

... by uncompromising attack on the coalition.

Hullo, 178

...the ruddy face had become uncompromisingly hard.

Crusaders, 31

Something which was uncompromisingly real, some­ thing which I couldn’t avoid, but which I felt ashamedly I was trying to avoid.

Room, 114

CONCEIVABLE — INCONCEIVABLE

CONCEIVED — UNCONCEIVED

To Pettinger defeat was inconceivable.

Crusaders, 382

Being a Charwell... she was part of an institution, Condaford without Charwell being still almost inconceiv­ able.

End, 27

...they had... smelt of old date a doomed colossus of egoism in that unborn, unconceived inheritor of the stuff of the family.

Egoist, 27

..they spoke not to her of happy births or joyous weddings but of the sudden, unconceived disaster of death.

Hatter’s, 315

CONCERNED — UNCONCERNED

CONCERNEDLY — UNCONCERNEDLY

It concerned her in some way, but she herself was uncon­ cerned, and she slid without effort into the position of mistress of the farm.

Hurly-Burly, 21

Yasha, who until now had remained studiously uncon­ cerned, looked up.

Crusaders, 187

He put it on his shoulder and walked steadily and un­ concernedly on.

/ Wish, 52

“ Just think, mama,” began Bella most unconcerned­ ly and almost irrelevantly.

Tragedy, 159

CONCLUSIVE — INCONCLUSIVE

CONCLUSIVELY — INCONCLUSIVELY

1 was surprised to find, now that my prize was within my grasp, how Inconclusive its attainment seemed.

Invisible, 113

In dreams he toiled through a tangle of inconclusive tales, each filled with the same stress of sea and seawind...

Who Knew, 183

...she couldn't bear to leave things so inconclusively

broken off with Ken...

Hullo, 179

CONDITIONAL — UNCONDITIONAL CONDITIONALLY — UNCONDITIONALLY

Ordinarily it was his custom to advise immediate and unconditional marriage.

Tragedy, 421

... she felt the injustice of such unnatural restraint, such unconditional limitation of her freedom...

Hatter’s, 90

“He left everything to his daughter unconditionally,’ ’ replied Ashe.

Who Knew, 185

CONGENIAL — UNCONGENIAL

...to gather about her innocent face and pure intentions associates as strange and uncongenial as the grim objects that are about her bed when her history is first fore­ shadowed.

Curiosity, 4

... from which uncongenial sight he has turned shud­ dering...

Egoist, 460

CONGRUOUS — INCONGRUOUS

CONGRUOUSLY — INCONGRUOUSLY

CO NGRUITY — INCONGRUITY

He was proud of appearing in such incongruous attire — proud of the fact that he always made them look con­ gruous.

Brown, 203

... her silk stockings and high heels struck an incon­ gruously voluptuous note...

Room, 171

A sudden sense of her own inferiority, of her incongrui­ ty amongst the luxury and taste of her present sur­ roundings afflicted her...

Hatter’s, 594

He perceived for the first time the fundamental incon­ gruity of Marjorie’s position...

Marriage, 348

CONNECT — DISCONNECT

CONNECTED — UNCONNECTED

... he came from behind the bar and hung the out-of- order sign on the nickel piano and disconnected the

People not immediately connected with Monseigneur or the state, yet equally unconnected with anything that was real, or with lives passed in travelling by any straight road to any true earthly end, were no less abundant.

Tale, 122

CONSCIOUS — UNCONSCIOUS

CONSCIOUSLY — UNCONSCIOUSLY

...Miss Alden had been drowned while conscious — and not unconscious, as the state would have the Jury

believe...

Tragedy, II, 257

He was unconscious of the silence.

Picture, 42

The ignorant man does not know it, but yet conscious­ ly or unconsciously, he is attracted by it, and it alone.

Stoic, 380

The letter he sent off was a humorous account of uniforms, badges, and small inconsequential incidents.

Crusaders, 611

... he was still convinced that the form of religious work his father essayed was of all forms the poorest and most inconsequential socially.

Tragedy, 184

CONSIDERABLE — INCONSIDERABLE

When I go into our little church on a Sunday, a consid­ erable part of the inconsiderable congregation expect to see me drop, scorched and withered, on the pavement under the Deadlock displeasure.

Bleak, 258

... he was devoting not an inconsiderable portion of

his free time to attempting to interest her...

Tragedy, 91