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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

"From this letter of the Zurich Theologian may be gathered, how inimically and hostilely the accused was wont to speak to strangers of the Church Council of the Palatinate of which he was a member."

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf

On the other hand Edwin had a sneezing cold which he could not conceal, and Darius inimically inquired what foolishness he had committed to have brought this on himself.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

The main object is to see if this fanaticism is not one of the countless legends inimically invented during the Middle Ages.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

But at this moment a tall, black-moustached policeman, who had long been eyeing them keenly and inimically, walked up to the uproarious students.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert