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 same officials who had received me so inimically now wanted me to stay!
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
"Tchk-tchk!" commented Slyne, and sat down to satisfy his hunger as best he might; while Captain Dove, having overheard that criticism, eyed him inimically, and proceeded to puff a peculiarly rank cigar in his face.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
She and I, who had really nothing to do with one another, if I would have laid my soul under her little feet, stood still in the cold moonlight, looking inimically into one another's eyes.
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by George W. Gage
The hoe fell from his hand and his posture stiffened so inimically that the hound at his feet rose and bristled, a low growl running half smothered in its throat.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
