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inimical
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  • Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we're upper-class.  (source)
  • To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire.  (source)
    inimical = hostile
  • When he first arrived, he was perturbed by having to preach in the corridor, which he found inimical to the contemplation of God.  (source)
    inimical = harmful or unfriendly
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  • Joe felt as if he had crossed into another dimension as treacherously amorphous and inimical to reason as the surreal landscapes in Salvador Dalí's paintings.  (source)
    inimical = harmful
  • The big toe moved plumply and inimically.†  (source)
    inimically = in a harmful or unfriendly manner
  • It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.  (source)
    inimical = harmful
  • 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.†  (source)
    inimically = in a harmful or unfriendly manner
  • The Frostfangs were as cruel as any place the gods had made, and as inimical to men.†  (source)
    inimical = harmful or unfriendly
  • For Simon, clearly, there was nothing of that familiarity, only the sense of the strange, the alien and inimical.†  (source)
  • It was as though she had found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.†  (source)
  • If the instability of her rule were eliminated and Attolia had a government more stable but inimical to the Mede, it could mean an alliance between Eddis and Attolia that would drive back Sounis.†  (source)
  • To inflict any hurt on anything for any purpose became inimical to him.†  (source)
  • No longer was I returning to the cold, inimical eyes of the cadre.†  (source)
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