inimical
adjective
adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful.
inimically
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a word derived from
inimical.
Example Sentences
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In other words, he changed from a rather inimically cantankerous McCarthyite witch hunter into a resolutely innovative and pragmatic national leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
The love of the peasant for his own field, which works inimically against the most benevolent agrarian laws, is even now a strong feeling, but in the seventeenth century was still more powerful.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
Swinburne had written for fifty years, and never once moved the nation, save inimically, when "Poems and Ballads" came near to being burnt publicly by the hangman.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
Why was he standing thirty feet from her and observing her inimically?
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
Here’s Mr—Mr—Mr—” “Poynter, doctor,” said that individual, glad of an opportunity to remove his eyes from Mark’s, which were gazing at him rather inimically.
From The Bag of Diamonds by George Manville Fenn
