Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inimical, adverse, or unfriendly manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inimical manner.
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- adverb In an
inimical manner.
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Examples
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Many secular women reformers insist these restrictions, derived from holy texts, are inimically hostile to women's rights.
Ida Lichter, M.D.: Misogyny In The Muslim World: Bound By Culture Or Religion? M.D. Ida Lichter 2011
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Many secular women reformers insist these restrictions, derived from holy texts, are inimically hostile to women's rights.
Ida Lichter, M.D.: Misogyny In The Muslim World: Bound By Culture Or Religion? M.D. Ida Lichter 2011
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Only under the dominance of Christianity, which makes all national, natural, moral, and theoretical conditions extrinsic to man, could civil society separate itself completely from the life of the state, sever all the species-ties of man, put egoism and selfish need in the place of these species-ties, and dissolve the human world into a world of atomistic individuals who are inimically opposed to one another.
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Because the Times has stubbornly (and inimically) refused to protect its hard-earned content, sites like the Beast or The Week can rummage through full papers, take the wheat, and leave the chaff — all without paying a dime.
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No Jewish organisation within or without the UK has ever acted subversively or in any way inimically to the UK, or indeed the West in general.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The two exist in the same space, both geographically and intellectually, Palestine and Israel, homelands of the dispossessed, holy lands of mosque and synagogue, inimically opposed it seems because each claims dominion in the name of their God.
Bin Laden's Speech - Part One Hal Duncan 2004
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The two exist in the same space, both geographically and intellectually, Palestine and Israel, homelands of the dispossessed, holy lands of mosque and synagogue, inimically opposed it seems because each claims dominion in the name of their God.
Archive 2004-11-01 Hal Duncan 2004
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'A pretty expression you have in your countenance, 'she went on, still gazing keenly, though not inimically, rather indeed pityingly at Caroline.
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Lubov looked at her father, smiled inimically, and asked hotly:
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Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the husband of a beauty, and in a word — an old woman; and secondly because Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized Rostov and had not responded to his greeting.
War and Peace 2003
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