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and his tight-folded arms and clearing of the throat, were faint indications of his condition.

Egoist, 302

He suddenly uncrossed his arms, shook his head from side to side and began to walk rapidly on.

End, 227

CULTURED — UNCULTURED

Uncultured man loves the pleasures of the senses immense­ ly; as he becomes cultured, he begins to love intel­ lectual pleasures...

Stoic, 381

How characteristic! The uncultured bore scorning sci­ ence!

Tomorrow, 328

CURABLE — INCURABLE

To this day they and their children are incurable!

Tomorrow, 324

The dark state to which her incurable passion for him had brought her now pained her terribly.

Tragedy, 367

CURIOUS — a) INCURIOUS b) UNCURIOUS CURIOUSLY — INCURIOUSLY

CURIOSITY — INCURIOSITY

He’s done well out of something,, Kit thought, curious and» incurious, resolved not to de drawn into the world of Swinton business calculations.

Spring, 79

She was also a friend of Lucie’s but she was not curious about him. She was the most uncurious of Nabatat English women...

/ Wish, 191

She saw only a man sitting on the edge of the bunk and incuriously studying the toes of his mocassins.

Lodging, 83

Not incuriously, he was swiftly recognized for what he was by all who came in touch with the magazine.

Maupassant, 52

Because men who lived their kind of lives learned early that incuriosity is, at certain times, just as important or more so than curiosity is at others.

if her daughter had not hastened in to undeceive her...

Curiosity, 429

You will compel me to follow, and undeceive him.

Egoist, 473

DECENT — INDECENT

DECENTLY — INDECENTLY

DECENCY — INDECENCY

... it was almost indecent to let his mind play around

her...

Crusaders, 235

I won’t be angry even if it’s indecent.

Room, 75

... Ann Veronica at once went back with the hold-all, trying not to hurry indecently...

Ann, 96

Abyss, 373

After that, the Food of the Gods sounded blatant to the pitch of indecency.

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...these secretive ways not an indecency, a reproach to him, but only a piteous necessity.

Hatter's, 442

DECIDED — UNDECIDED

DECIDEDLY — UNDECIDEDLY

DECISIVE — INDECISIVE

DECISIVELY — INDECISIVELY

DECISIVENESS — INDECISIVENESS

DECISION — INDECISION

Essex had a way of making a man undecided.

Diplomat, 131

He shuffled the papers on his desk in an undecided yet intent kind of way...

Room, 158

“Please rise,11 said Sophia, her hands fidgeting unde­ cidedly.

Wives, 434

They looked around undecidedly.

Hatter's, 60

Katherine admired him for if and would always choose him in his decisive moments in preference to an in­

decisive MacGregor.

Diplomat, 405

He... directed a certain portion of his capital to largely indecisive but on the whole unprofitable speculations in South African and South American enterprises.

Marriage, 32

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He bent his brows angrily, rubbed his chin indeci­ sively.

Hatter’s, 439

“More than anything else,’ ’ she said to him, “ your mo­ ments of indecisiveness anger me.’ ’

“ Too early,” said Sir Lawrence, “ owing to daylight saving indecorum isn’t billed till eight...”

End, 62

DEFENDED — UNDEFENDED

DEFENSIBLE — INDEFENSIBLE

Her face seemed so natural and undefended that it gave her a shock.

End, 142

...if you found the sector in front of your company un­ defended... wouldn’t you move in?

Crusaders, 416

...something in her character that might have suggested to Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson her indefensible, ab­ surd ‘rogue in porcelain’.

Egoist, 117

The necessity of defending herself and assuming a con­ fident and secure tone did much to dispel the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy world that abounded in sinister possibilities.

Ann, 112

DEFINITE — INDEFINITE

DEFINITELY — INDEFINITELY

DEFINABLE — INDEFINABLE

..with such indefinite intervals between each period of resumption as might best accord with the exigen­ cies and capabilities of the proposed Miscellany.

Curiosity, 3

Then, suddenly with a quick, indefinite gesture of one arm, he exclaimed...

Octopus, 167

His mother could not have concealed it from him in­ definitely.

Tragedy, 105

I could go on indefinitely, painting you a picture of misery and starvation.

Diplomat, 185

A man of indefinable age... looked at her and nodded...

Crusaders, 314

...all bearing the same indefinable stamp of love for him.

Hatter’s, 430

DELICATE — INDELICATE

DELICACY — INDELICACY

However, to the unconsciously indelicate all things are delicate.

Yankee, 47

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Marriage, 59

The exchange and mart of human indelicacy was crow­ ded...

End, 53

DEMOCRATIC — UNDEMOCRATIC

...the noisy protests against the chairman’s undemo­ cratic ruling began to subside.

Tomorrow, 234

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

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DENIABLE — UNDENIABLE

The only undeniable facts... are the discovery of Wicksteed’s body, done to death, and of the bloodstained iron rod flung among the nettles.

Invisible, 150

...an obscure and weak but undeniable revulsion...

Hullo, 60

DEPENDENT — INDEPENDENT

DEPENDENTLY — INDEPENDENTLY

DEPENDENCE — INDEPENDENCE

DEPENDABLE — UNDEPENDABLE

...h e felt he must, for his own satisfaction and her good, subdue that independent spirit.

Hatter’s, 37

we make a fuss about being independent in something.

Who Knew, 103

Then I stopped talking; or, rather, my voice trailed off into silence independently of me.

Room, 97

With these three, but walking independently behind,

was a girl of fifteen...

Tragedy, 9

...his characteristic expression of energy of independence, and a hint that he could fight...

Arrowsmith, 2

For now, all at once, he saw economic independence ahead for himself...

Tragedy, 43

That girl was getting more careless than ever, and as undependable in such important matters as a half­ witted ninny.

It had an unbearable pattern of blue but otherwise in­

describable flowers...

Pomona’s, 133

Wilfred said, with a voice utterly undescribable...

Brown, 218

DESERVED — UNDESERVED

DESERVING — UNDESERVING

...the thought of remaining and listening to praises undeserved and no longer flattering, was a torture.

Egoist, 390

... a lawgiver who always kept his word and who never struck a boy undeserved.

Mauki, 199

... in aid of the undeserving, the only people I am real­ ly interested in.

Ideal, 221

Now you know we are obliged to put people into those houses to take care of ’em — very often undeserv­ ing people that we can’t depend upon.

Curiosity, 507

DESIRABLE — UNDESIRABLE

DESIRABILITY — UNDESIRABILITY

In this way he got many rotten twigs and bits of green moss that were undesirable, but it was the best he could do.

Build, 49

...they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries...

Arrowsmith, 271

...an opinion' of his father... on the undesirability of warfare_infgeneral, and during winter in particular.

Crusaders, 445

D E T E R M I N A T E 135 — D IG E S T E D

DETERMINATE — INDETERMINATE DETERMINATION — INDETERMINATION

An immense relief; but mixed with it a disturbing pulse, an indeterminate emotion of resistance.

Hullo, 201

...with most of his houses built in the uniform grey which made their age indeterminate.

Crusaders, 151

...physical and mental indetermination so strangely and painfully contrasting with this scene.

Tragedy, 513

DEVELOPED — UNDEVELOPED

This undeveloped consideration was the possibility, which Richard Swiveller sought to conceal even from himself...

Curiosity, 76

His absolute preference was still in the large undevelop­ ed field of micropaleontology...

...but his undeviating aspiration, and ambition as passionate as it was supine, was to possess a donkey.

Venerable, 56

DIGESTED — UNDIGESTED

DIGESTIBLE — INDIGESTIBLE

DIGESTION — INDIGESTION

I foresee undigested lumps of conversation, unless you devote yourself.

Egoist, 343

in appearance and bordered with a paste of white sugar an inch and a half deep.

There was a bad taste in my mouth, the indigestion which always attacks me when I am angry.

Room, 179

DIGNIFIED — UNDIGNIFIED

DIGNITY — INDIGNITY

It was an undignified position for him.

Three, ISO

Ever since this breaking off of that fierce undignified scuffle at Royston...

End, 517

The indignity of this last, powerful, unexpected shove completely upset Dron...

Hatter’s, 81

I felt a sharp guilt at the memory; the house should have been inviolate from minor indignities.

Room, 108

DIMINISHED— UNDIMINISHED

...one, who, having taken up his position when the twi­ light first came on, still maintained it with undlminished patience...

Curiosity, 96

He was pleasantly surprised at his own undiminished capability for sober estimates...

Crusaders, 685