be hostile to
Example Sentences
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Someone suggested that falling asleep to audiobooks might be hostile to the appreciation of literature.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2024
Dr. Steve Desch, an astrophysics professor at Arizona State University, was also skeptical of the prospect that aliens would be hostile to Earth.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
He was reported to be hostile to Belgian state officials and to a leading virologist.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023
Thao said he decided that they should continue to Cup Foods anyway because Kueng and Lane were “so new” and the area was known to be hostile to police.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2020
Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
