Here the planet under scrutiny is Venus -- a world even more inimical to human existence than Mars. From LearnThat.org. [www.times.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27scifit.html]
His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Celebrity, Complete] Reference
This, according to the outgoing DA leader, was "inimical" to the values of individual freedom and accountability. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
From this time forward, Macknight became a marked man, "inimical" whether he wanted to be or not. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776] Reference
New Delhi: India today said it will take whatever steps are needed to prevent and defeat "inimical" elements against peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Friday's term was inimical, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #54] Reference
She looked at him helplessly, so attractive and so inimical to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Wealth is not inimical to welfare; it ought to be its friendliest agency. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
They were huge, and ugly, and alien, but they were not inimical to humans. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
He spoke with an oddly curt -- almost inimical -- inflection in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
At noon a large crowd had gathered, composed of those most inimical to the strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
He raised his head, and the look he gave to the man opposite bordered on the inimical. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
McClernand and Sherman were not friends, McClernand being bitterly inimical to Sherman. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
They are not hostile to employers, not inimical to the interests of the general public. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
In reality, of course, they are not synonymous at all -- if anything, they are inimical. From Wordnik.com. [Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters] Reference
And this was gossip as surely as the inimical prattle about Lord and Lady Byron was gossip. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
He felt at the present time, moreover, that he was inimical to his mother and her interests. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
They appear equally inimical and heretical to the opposing camps of hausfrau and of suffragist. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
Is it too much to suppose that he had this time stolen a march on the inimical fates, and forced. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
As little gum as possible should be employed with it, gum being inimical to its body, or whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
She had but few enemies, and, wishing to have none, tried to win over those who were inimical towards her. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
The French press, too, long inimical to the man who stole their Tour, has reportedly been happy to pile on. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: King Killers: The Art of Personal and Political Assassination] Reference
Here, again, the use of the agent might doubtless be extended to other colours, to which foul air is inimical. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It is also dirty to work with, and is often a harbour for larvae of various moths -- inimical to the taxidermist. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Japan began to have thoughts which were in danger of becoming inimical to the best interests of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
With the opening of the fourth year, the inimical spirit of many of the Bedouins, as well as that of the Jews of Bani. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
"Helena," returned Monte-Cristo, "this poor young man has been maligned, falsely accused by persons inimical to him.". From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Has the monogamic family, as now outlined and legalized, any elements inherently inimical to a democratic order of society?. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Hitherto, it has been decidedly inimical to the European constitution; and hundreds of our countrymen are already buried there. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Democracy advocates say they never wanted to become "hacktivists," because hacking is inimical to freedom of speech and the press. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Firewall Of China] Reference
Care should always be taken to keep the orchard well furrowed out as standing water is decidedly inimical to satisfactory tree-growth. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
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