Meaning of inimicality | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; unfriendliness.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“So far, then, as this measure is concerned, I want to acquit myself of any charge of inimicality to the interests of this Territory, in favor of which the gentleman who is conducting this bill for the Committee of Ways and Means invokes the sympathy of the committee.”

“What was at stake in this turf battle was more than personal inimicalities and nothing short of the possibility of subsuming politics under a general social science; for Duroselle as for American realists, this was a delusional prospect.”

“The random outrages of the still at large anthrax letter mailer, or the now imprisoned John Allen Muhammed and John Lee Malvino, in and around Washington, DC during 2001 and 2002, show the ease with which individual inimicality virtually can paralyze numerous urban law enforcement agencies as well as monopolize the attention of the local and national mass media.”

CEFR level