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  • adjective Not amicable; unfriendly or hostile.

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Examples

  • The challenge is not to live together with the inamicable, to tolerate the intolerant, regardless of the facts, wishfully hoping for an unlikely future of kumbayah.

    Muslims praying in the cathedral. Ann Althouse 2007

  • "However, only history is best placed to judge harshly those whose interests may be inamicable to the justness of the cause of our people," the ANC spokesman said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • 5. His concept of the Jew as the powerful alien within frequently inamicable to Russian peasant and Christian interests, but at the same time the people Russians needed to help them from backwardness to modernity.

    "It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!" Ann Althouse 2008

  • "It is recorded that the first persons who practised this species of composition [Footnote: The _composition_ here mentioned consisted of three parts, The _first_ regarded the structure; that is, the _connection_ of our words, and required that the last syllable of every preceding, and the first of every succeeding word should be so aptly united as to produce an agreeable sound; which was effected by avoiding a collision of vowels or of inamicable consonants.

    Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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