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His sturdy body plowed through without being incon­ siderate.

Crusaders, 206

... the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone.

Curiosity, 10

.. a small but obtrusive wart which had most incon­ siderately chosen its location upon the extremity of his nose.

Hatter's, 76

CONSISTENT — INCONSISTENT

CONSISTENCY — INCONSISTENCY

CONSISTENTLY — INCONSISTENTLY

His affection for the child might not be inconsistent with villainy of the worst kind...

Curiosity, 21

It was not only that her father had said all sorts of in­ consistent and unreasonable things...

Ann, 120

Something more than a passing female inconsistency of mood.

Hullo, 29

All the same she was fully conscious of inconsistency.

End, 124

... she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one

urgent consideration to another...

Ann, 117

CONSOLABLE — INCONSOLABLE

CONSOLATION — DISCONSOLATION

Why, when I was your age, Sir, I had been an inconsolable widower for three months...

I Ideal, 235

... at last she was driven to take refuge from a univer­ sal convergence of blame in the dignity of inconsol­ able widowhood.

Food, 159

... restoring ’em to their friends, who I dare say, have had their disconsolation pasted up on every wall in London by this time.

Curiosity, 164

CONSPICUOUS — INCONSPICUOUS

Bing, who had made himself inconspicuous in the half­ dark corner of the tent, watched the general scan the

copy.

Crusaders, 95

It might be better... to spend the first night there a,t some inexpensive inconspicuous hotel...

Tragedy, 497

CONSTANT — INCONSTANT

CONSTANCY — INCONSTANCY

He had already had a misgiving that the inconstant actors in that dazzling vision had been doing the same thing the night before last...

To look at anything that is inconstant is charming nowadays.

/ mportance, 145

It is an act of inconstancy.

Egoist, 151

... lest this history should be chargeable with incon­ stancy and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt...

Curiosi ty, 404

CONSTITUTIONAL — UNCONSTITUTIONAL

“This is even more unconstitutional,” said the Mag­ istrate...

Posthumous, 376

Of course, there are different forms of capitalist rule. There are constitutional and unconstitutional mon­ archies, democratic and undemocratic republics, personal and fascist dictatorships.

D. W., Febr. 2, 1963

CONTENTED — DISCONTENTED

CONTENTEDLY — DISCONTENTEDLY

CONTENT — DISCONTENT

CONTENTMENT — DISCONTENTMENT

Discovering his mistake after a while, he appeared to grow rather sleepy and discontented.

Curiosity, 30

We gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood' of human beings, and that they were vexed and dis­ contented.

Three, 141

The two waitresses standing behind Kath were talking discontentedly about wages...

Hullo, 61

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Importance, 132

... this winter of our discontent may have dimmed our memories of last summer’s damps and chills...

D. W., Febr. 6, 1963

He thinks people can’t become continent except through being excessively incontinent.

Spoon, 131

He... incontinently drew his truncheon and smote Ted­ dy Henfrey savagely upon the crown of his head.

Invisible, 55

... when she came to him... he had incontinently yield­ ed.

Wisdom, 151

CONTINUE — DISCONTINUE

... his discontinuing to insist on her wearing the jewels...

disarmed her by touching sympathies.

Egoist, 130

Why did Biederkopf... discontinue the machinegunning of the remaining prisoners..?

Crusaders, 549

CONTROLLED — UNCONTROLLED

CONTROLLABLE — UNCONTROLLABLE

Emotionally more uncontrolled, and less sense of form

than either of those others...

I Wish, 81

... she had an uncontrollable desire to laugh.

Crusaders, 198

CONTROVERTIBLE — INCONTROVERTIBLE

CONVENIENT — INCONVENIENT

CONVENIENTLY — INCONVENIENTLY

CONVENIENCE — INCONVENIENCE

... he preferred to ignore inconvenient details.

Hullo, 54

The house was in a square at Chiswick, old and incon­ venient.

Poor Man, 173

... he... would by no means dirty his feet or hurry him­ self Inconveniently.

Curiosity, 181

If you will think only of one trifling aspect — the in­ convenience it must be to us to explain your absence

— I think you will begin to realize what it all means for us.

Ann, 157

... apologized in careless Russian for the inconvenience and accident.

Diplomat, 16

... but under Queen Ann, a restorative Cherrell, con­ vinced of the millennium, perhaps, and, possibly inconvenienced by the insects had drained all the water.

End, 33

I hope I haven’t inconvenienced you.

Diplomat, 289

CONVENTIONAL — UNCONVENTIONAL

... which courtesy, unconventional and dishonest though it might be, still caused Hegglund to feel that he was a wonderful fellow...

Tragedy, 55

She was a clever woman... beautiful, though a bit un­ conventional in her style of dress...

Stoic, 50

CONVINCED — UNCONVINCED

CONVINCING — UNCONVINCING

CONVINCINGLY — UNCONVINCINGLY

And Clyde, contemplating all that had been said, was still unconvinced.

Tragedy, 487

Martin was equally unconvinced by Anti-tuberculo­ sis week.

Arrowsmith, 225

... nothing but the faith lying in sensation to convince him of his happy fortune (and how unconvincing that may be... we experience even then when we ac­ knowledge that we are most blest)...

Egoist, 583

... but such excuses were unconvincing.

End, 257

“ Perhaps not,’ ’ she said unconvincingly.

Diplomat, 65

CORK — UNCORK

He was uncorking his morning measure of rye whisky.

Way, 464

Another bottle is to follow... It is uncorked.

Egoist, 234

CORRECT — INCORRECT

CORRECTLY — INCORRECTLY

CORRECTED — UNCORRECTED

CORRIGIBLE — INCORRIGIBLE

It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect.

Moreau, 3

“Well, then,” he went on, slightly reduced by the fact that his surmise was incorrect...

Tragedy, 424

I made a thorough hash of my lines, mispronouncing the simplest words and emphasizing almost every sentence incorrectly.

Room, 61

She could think of him in pleasant liberty, uncorrected by her woman’s instinct of peril.

Egoist, 101

We can make some mistakes, but we can’t afford to leave them uncorrected.

Diplomat, 534

She is quite incorrigible, Gerald.

Importance, 153

How incorrigible was that prepossession.

End, 208

COVER — UNCOVER

But you cannot turn Scott off that easily, and he uncov­ ered most of it.

I Wish, 62

... killing his efforts to uncover the truth.

Crusaders, 313

CREDULOUS — INCREDULOUS

CREDULOUSLY — INCREDULOUSLY

CREDULITY — INCREDULITY

The story that it had originated in Robinson, credible or incredible, had been shameful for me to hear...

Homecoming, 35

For her, the sight of him was so amazing, so incredible, as to be, for some moments at least, terrible.

Food, 212

...suddenly she paused, with incredulous awestruck eyes.

sometimes expressing his surprise and incredulity.

Curiosity, 208

...it was still with manifest incredulity that they set about the building of the hut...

Marriage, 460

CREDITABLE — DISCREDITABLE

Her mother, sensitive and secluded, was just shrinking from publicity discreditable to Clare.

Tragedy, 39