inimical

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It recently backed a Cabinet viewed as inimical to its interests in a bid to unlock reconstruction funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

More broadly, a massive and growing media marketing complex culturally "manufactures" modern high-consumption lifestyles, which are inimical to the environment and to human health and well-being.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2024

In 2015, Beijing’s population planners finally concluded that the consequences of their awful “one child policy” were inimical to state interests.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

Finally, much of her poetry made meticulous use of rhyme, which by the mid-20th century was disdained by the poetic establishment as inimical to the making of serious art.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding