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Example sentences for "inimical"

Lexicographically close words:
inhumanities; inhumanity; inhumanly; inhumation; inhumed; inimically; inimici; inimicis; inimicos; inimicum
  1. They advanced together, Stane with his rifle ready for action, since a presence that avoided them might well prove to be an inimical one.

  2. There is something inimical in the silence up here," she said in a whisper, as she gave a little shudder.

  3. No European country or colonies will welcome people sent away on the ground that they are inimical to white civilization; and the settlements of American Negroes in savage Africa have been entire failures.

  4. But strict discipline was kept, for it was undoubtedly the object of the King of Holland not to make the country inimical to him; but to treat it in the most conciliatory way.

  5. That the assumption that it was a mere treaty between the sovereign states, from which any state might at any time secede at its pleasure, was an erroneous assumption, and inimical to our national existence and prosperity.

  6. That Rakshasa was inimical to Brahmanas and sacrifices.

  7. But the outlaws were not to win a foothold upon that inimical planet easily, nor were they to hold it without effort.

  8. Costigan managed finally to blast his way out, but the Nevians had had time to assemble in force and he was met by a concentrated storm of beams and of metal from every inimical weapon within range.

  9. The young man began a gesture of despair, which he restrained lest those inimical eyes should lift again.

  10. But mental thralldom is quite as inimical to complete living as thralldom of the body.

  11. Scarcely less inimical to democracy than anarchy is snobbery.

  12. Knowing that pettiness will be inimical to society in the next generation, she is careful to banish it from her own life.

  13. The French Romanticists were originally as little inimical to Roman Catholicism as the German.

  14. And since these dogmas, especially as connected with ancient myths of the Creation, are in direct opposition to the facts of evolution, the latter have been believed to be, in the highest degree, inimical to religion and morality.

  15. But Lichonin suddenly felt a prickling, shameful awkwardness and something inimical toward this woman, yesterday unknown to him, now--his chance mistress.

  16. And when they, before going their ways, said good-bye to each other, in their eyes twinkled some kind of an inimical feeling, just as with the participants of one and the same filthy and unnecessary crime.

  17. These procurators soon found their chief occupation in resisting and protesting against those acts of the Councils which they deemed inimical to the public welfare.

  18. I mean one that might be brought forward as convincing evidence to those who have shown themselves inimical or lukewarm in the cause.

  19. As soon as he had succeeded, he murdered all those whom he thought inimical to him, and who had been friends to his relatives.

  20. No language is more inimical to ambiguities and every species of obscurity.

  21. Châteaubriand's father is likewise one of the discontented, "a political frondeur, and very inimical to the court.

  22. With them was resuscitated all the inimical legislation of the past, beginning with the time of Elizabeta Petrovna.

  23. Its immediate effect was to compel Lord Clifford and Arlington to resign: the wedge was thus introduced into the Cabal, and the Duke of York, who resigned his office of Lord High Admiral, became inimical to them.

  24. When everything fails the priest declares that the ailment is due, not to any natural infirmity, but to the capture or wounding of one of the souls of the patient by inimical spirits.

  25. Instances might be multiplied indefinitely, but the general conclusion is that anything that suggests the unintelligible, the unusual, the suspected, the gloomy, is at once attributed to inimical powers.

  26. The state of a householder is beset with occupations inimical to religious conduct and tranquillity.

  27. In this manner, then, those who long only for the Self abandon the state of a householder, understanding that it is beset with occupations inimical to religious conduct and to tranquillity.

  28. Although the proper names are wanting, it is certain that some persons inimical to the revolution urged it to deplorable excesses.

  29. Doubt is a proof of diffidence, and has rarely been inimical to the progress of science.

  30. D'Aubigny, as the sole result, obtained only vague hopes on the part of the Dutch, who were as inimical as the English as to any exchange with France.

  31. The ecclesiastical power was already inimical to civil authority.

  32. The prince's excursion to Madrid was, however, universally blamed, as being inimical to state interests.

  33. Wicquefort says, "that James in all this was the dupe of Gondomar, who well knew the impossibility of this marriage, which was alike inimical to the interests of politics and the Inquisition.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inimical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adversary; adverse; aggressive; alien; antagonistic; anti; antipathetic; antithetical; balancing; bellicose; belligerent; bloodthirsty; bloody; breakaway; chill; chilly; clashing; cold; combative; compensating; competitive; con; conflicting; confronting; contentious; contradictory; contrary; converse; cool; counter; cranky; cross; crotchety; detrimental; difficult; discordant; discrepant; dissident; enemy; exclusive; ferocious; fierce; fighting; fractious; frosty; gaunt; hard; harmful; hostile; icy; ill; incompatible; inconsistent; indisposed; inhospitable; inimical; inverse; malign; martial; militant; military; miserable; negative; obstinate; obverse; offensive; opponent; opposed; opposing; opposite; oppositional; perverse; prejudicial; pugnacious; quarrelsome; reactionary; recalcitrant; refractory; repugnant; resistant; reverse; revolutionary; rigorous; rival; sanguinary; savage; scrappy; sinister; strained; stressful; tense; troublesome; troublous; truculent; trying; unamiable; unfavorable; unfriendly; unpropitious; unsociable; untoward; warlike; warring; wretched