[ adj ] not friendly <adj.all> an unfriendly act of aggressionan inimical critic
Inimical \In*im"i*cal\ (?; 277), a. [L. inimicalis, fr. inimicus unfriendly, hostile; pref. in- not + amicus friendly. See {Amity}.] 1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
2. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. --Burke.
But the administration opposes the bill as "inimical to the spirit of the First Amendment" because it injects the government into programming and advertising decisions of TV stations.
In any case, the various track-suits in which the men are generally garbed are inimical to any sense of wartime pressure and individual heroic airs.
Our true "identity," these people argue, would be not only different, but inimical to that ideal, and of course to economic freedom.
The trend is not new, the center having documented it in a similar volume last year by Marvin Olasky of the University of Texas, who found that $7 of every $10 given by some companies was for causes deemed inimical to their interests.
And the fact that it is not impossible reinforces the main point of our editorial: that such a law as the Railway Labor Act is inimical to the public interest and ought to be struck down by Congress.
"The imposition of monetary damages (civil sanctions) can be just as inimical to and an encroachment of one's First Amendment guarantees as criminal sanctions," the state court said.