In the middle of one of the longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something.
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
The Frostfangs were as cruel as any place the gods had made, and as inimical to men.
George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings
Mixed among the Ansariyeh were colonies of Syrian Christians; and in the bend of the Orontes had been some firm blocks of Armenians, inimical to Turkey.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
It was inimical, but that was not the problem.
Stephen King
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
1 reads “considerable advantage that it should.” ↩︎ Primogeniture and entails are censured as inimical to agriculture in Lectures, pp.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations