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Recent Examples of inimical The partnership model’s annual distribution of funds is inimical to long-term investment. Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Monk previously pleaded guilty to one gross misdemeanor count of driving after cancellation after being deemed inimical to the public safety. Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025 To believe otherwise is to not just believe that slower periods of economic growth require the very central planning that is so inimical to good times. John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024 Its interests are often inimical to the principles of accountability. Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inimical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inimical
Adjective
  • Students from the kingdom are increasingly turning away from US universities in particular, put off by a mix of hostile immigration policies, concerns over gun violence, and the kingdom’s own push to grow its domestic education sector.
    Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The move to social media and algorithmic media was really a move toward a style of political communication that is somewhat hostile to the liberal project and the deliberative, open-minded, thoughtful, on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand mode of discourse that Obama is good at.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Drinking it less often, enjoying it with meals or rinsing your mouth out with water after drinking may lessen such adverse effects.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And no serious adverse events were reported.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And minimizing the ability for rival studios to make viable alternative games, critics argue, has had a negative effect on the quality of sports titles across the sector.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, Kirk’s admirers are campaigning to get people who make negative comments about those views—which are, after all, highly controversial and designedly so—fired from their jobs.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Even as tragedy and struggle beset the tenement districts, the very qualities that defined the tenement’s unfavorable physical conditions—over-crowdedness and density—became building blocks for community.
    Annie Polland, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • When unfavorable ratios of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol were considered, those with the least favorable ratios had a 54% higher risk of high blood pressure.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Overwatering mums is just as detrimental as underwatering.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Trump warned that major changes could occur — which could be detrimental to Democrats — if the government runs out of funding.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Hendryx also said the move would lead to more environmental destruction, more local air and water pollution from mining sites, more pollution from power plants, more harmful contributions to climate change emissions, and other negative impacts.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The lack of structure could have harmful consequences for kids in the long run.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Inimical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inimical. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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