Sample Sentences for
inimical
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    Thrift is inimical to our being. We spend to pretend that we're upper-class.  (source)
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    To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire.  (source)
    inimical = hostile
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    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
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    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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    The big toe moved plumply and inimically.†  (source)
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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
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    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)
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    The Frostfangs were as cruel as any place the gods had made, and as inimical to men.†  (source)
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    They felt that a thousand inimical eyes looked at them through the unshaded front window and the four women, with fear in their hearts, bent their heads and plied their needles.†  (source)
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    In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.†  (source)
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    No longer was I returning to the cold, inimical eyes of the cadre.†  (source)
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    To inflict any hurt on anything for any purpose became inimical to him.†  (source)
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    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)
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