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
With a windchill of minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit, the weather is downright inhospitable.
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Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
The film takes place within an inhospitable environment where brushes with outlaws (and the law itself) can lead to death by gunfire.
—Sezin Devi Keohler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
But the dams hurt salmon in a number of ways, including by forcing them through turbines, warming the slow-moving water in reservoirs to inhospitable temperatures, and greatly slowing the migration of juvenile fish to the sea.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
The international effort to eradicate screwworm eventually pushed the pest to the Darien Gap, an inhospitable stretch of jungle on the Panama-Colombia border.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
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Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
The film takes place within an inhospitable environment where brushes with outlaws (and the law itself) can lead to death by gunfire.
—Sezin Devi Keohler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
But the dams hurt salmon in a number of ways, including by forcing them through turbines, warming the slow-moving water in reservoirs to inhospitable temperatures, and greatly slowing the migration of juvenile fish to the sea.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
The international effort to eradicate screwworm eventually pushed the pest to the Darien Gap, an inhospitable stretch of jungle on the Panama-Colombia border.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhospitable
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The 45th president’s victory in the crowded 2016 primary effectively toppled the existing Republican Establishment, injecting the party with a combination of populism and distrust that was especially hostile to the way things were done before.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Customers will keep fighting back with dirty returns, unused reservations and hostile reviews.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Court records and large-scale studies indicate that elite colleges’ race-aware and holistic admissions systems have operated as a negative factor for Asian American applicants, contributing to lower admission/attendance odds than similarly qualified white applicants.—
David Blobaum,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Apple’s latest iPhone software update is drawing attention—some of which is negative—not just for its incremental upgrades, but also for a shift in how users interact with one of its core apps.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Inhospitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhospitable. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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