inimical

Example Sentences

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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

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

More than 30 states prohibit title lending or have laws inimical to the industry.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2022

What we call the “criminal legal system” is actually a chaotic web of overlapping, often inimical, systems—plural.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2022

Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin