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adjective

Inimical adj.

Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.

Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant. "We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments."

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Etymology of 'Inimical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inimical" Quotes from Famous Books

... those who oppress them. Doubtless, also, there is the inertia incident to long tradition, but I suspect that the resistance is rather due to a subtle and, as yet, nearly unconscious instinct, which teaches the numerical majority, who are inimical to capital, that the shortest and easiest way for them to acquire autocratic authority is to obtain an absolute mastery over those political tribunals which we call courts. Also that mastery is being by them ...

— The Theory of Social Revolutions • Brooks Adams

... inimical suggestions of death and hell, change their meaning as soon as the founders of religious Orders adopt them for the garb of the cloister. Black then symbolizes renunciation, repentance, the mortification of the flesh, according ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... you, my friends, my benefactors, be successful in your applications for me, perhaps it may not be in my power, in that way, to reap the fruit of your friendly efforts. What I have written in the preceding pages, is the settled tenor of my present resolution; but should inimical circumstances forbid me closing with your kind offer, or enjoying it only threaten to entail ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... them. He greeted his visitors pleasantly but coldly, giving an impression of studied correctness. The conversation continued somewhat awkwardly. Elisaveta's blue eyes looked gently and pensively at the irritated Piotr and at his deliberately inimical adversary Stchemilov. ...

— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub

... that there is not a word in the language that conveys so little endearment as the word "dear." But though the saying itself, like most truths, be trite and hackneyed, no little novelty remains to the search of the inquirer into the varieties of inimical import comprehended in that malign monosyllable. For instance, I submit to the experienced that the degree of hostility it betrays is in much proportioned to its collocation in the sentence. When, gliding indirectly through the rest of the period, ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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