inimical

How To Use inimical In A Sentence

• I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
• The state has also passed laws that are inimical to the short-term interests of particular capitalists, but necessary in the longer-term interests of capitalism itself - for example, health and safety legislation.
• Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, and has created new conditions, not in the routes of commerce only, but in political geography, which powerfully affect our relations toward and necessarily increase our interests in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or, in other contingencies, for uses inimical to both. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
• Interest groups, which are associated with sectionalism and the possible exercise of sanctions, appear to be inimical to ideas of reasoned discussion and the general welfare.
• In my view, the arrival of a batman with a bucket of water is often inimical to romance.
• I believe that orthodoxy of any kind is inimical to art, and that is why the writer must be free.
• Thus far, U.S. policy has been based on the premise that nuclear proliferation is necessarily inimical to U.S. interests.
• There should be proper interviews of these people so that, like Zambians working abroad, they also can work here as long as they formalise their documents and stay away from activities that are inimical to national development.
• Behind that gloss was something cold and terrible, that lurked and waited and watched -- something catlike, something inimical and deadly. CHAPTER II
• Short of carpet-bombing the entire country and creating huge civilian casualties, weather conditions will prove inimical to a broadly based ‘search and destroy’ mission.