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/ɪnˈɪmɪkəl/ Listen

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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... have never been able to estimate the Spaniard quite so seriously as he estimates himself, or, indeed, as his stern and uncompromising nature deserves. The truth is, Spanish policy has ever been insidiously and persistently inimical to the American people, and has culminated in deeds more atrocious than those which have rendered infamous the baleful memory of ...

— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... resisted their demands. Five years was a short enough time. Some organisms took longer than that to develop in the human body or mind, to make their inimical presence known. Some did not show up until the second or third generation; which was the reason for the second-phase colonists, to live there for three generations, before the planet could be opened to ...

— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... at a loss to understand his sister's intimation, but as it was vulgarly inimical, and seemed to hold some subtle personal scorn or jealousy, he shrank from questioning her. This talk with his sister was the most unreal happening he had ever experienced. He could not ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... condition. Consequently, by this method, Communism will only be inaugurated where the conditions of life are difficult, where demoralization and disorganization make success almost impossible, and where men are in a mood of fierce despair very inimical to industrial construction. If Communism is to have a fair chance, it must be inaugurated in a prosperous country. But a prosperous country will not be readily moved by the arguments of hatred and universal upheaval which are employed by the Third International. ...

— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell

... roused to a tensity of feeling it had not known since the civil war, when, on occasion, it had set out to hang half a dozen "Knights of the Golden Circle." Joe had been hissed on the street many times since the inimical clerk had whistled at him. Probably demonstrations of that sort would have continued had he remained in Canaan; but for almost a month he had been absent and his office closed, its threshold gray with dust. There were people who believed that he had run away again, ...

— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington

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