as in hostile
marked by opposition or ill will
the proposal received an unexpectedly inhospitable response from the city council
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Recent Examples of inhospitable
Per the official premise: Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs.
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon play the mom and dad of a wealthy family holed up in a posh bunker in a salt mine, George MacKay plays their son who yearns to know about the inhospitable outside world, and Moses Ingram is the stranger who changes everything.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Adapted to live in some of our planet’s most inhospitable mountainous regions, snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are the ultimate mountain climbers and an iconic big cat.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Zahab had spent the last two decades crossing some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon play the mom and dad of a wealthy family holed up in a posh bunker in a salt mine, George MacKay plays their son who yearns to know about the inhospitable outside world, and Moses Ingram is the stranger who changes everything.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Adapted to live in some of our planet’s most inhospitable mountainous regions, snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are the ultimate mountain climbers and an iconic big cat.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Zahab had spent the last two decades crossing some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhospitable
Adjective
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That’s coupled with a more hostile political environment for diversity-forward businesses.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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The crowd was right on top of you there, the students rimmed the court, the very definition of a hostile environment.—
Jim Calhoun with Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2025
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Despite all the negative attention the movie received, Johnson did not appear concerned with the long-term impact of Madame Web while speaking with the L.A. Times.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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There also exist aspects of their past which would become political fodder in the hands of any opponent’s negative campaign.—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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“Inhospitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhospitable. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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