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

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

Paradoxically, this sort of love for an animal can be inimical to its welfare.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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