How to Use inimical in a Sentence

inimical

adjective
  • Any travel ban cannot but be inimical to the growth of the country.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There’s something about this notion that’s inimical to the give-and-take of big-city life.
    — Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • This kind of thing feels especially inimical to the comic book form, where time and space are so malleable.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Or reform of a tax system that is complex, regressive, and inimical to growth.
    — Anand Menon, Time, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The water became brackish, then saline, then anoxic - inimical to fish life, which died away almost overnight.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Here science and faith are not seen as inimical to one another, but as working together, hand-in-glove.
    — Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
  • That inimical Hyper Burst midsole felt the same — what a relief!
    — Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • There are few things more inimical to self-reinvention than drinking yourself into the big zip-up bag at age 44.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Since this president is inimical to diplomacy, the question of who should be secretary of state is moot.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The image of the desert that these films have inspired in popular culture is of a place inimical to human life, a landscape that is trying to kill us.
    — Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The views that Sessions is hiding are inimical to the democratic values of many a large portion of the country.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Lists are no substitute for criticism, but those who take them as inimical to criticism are pharisaical.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Yet Wulf points out that nothing in his philosophy was inimical to morality.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Many will disagree with these values, but nothing about them is obviously inimical to the Bill of Rights.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Such a culture is inimical to satisfying the needs of digital business and its customers.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • More than 30 states prohibit title lending or have laws inimical to the industry.
    — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Politics seems to have become inimical to critical thinking, and nowhere is this more obvious than climate change.
    — Andrew I. Fillat and Henry I. Miller, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In his view, partisan cheering is just as inimical to comedy as partisan booing.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But his habit of going out of his way to endorse world leaders inimical to Western democracy never stops being stunning.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 16 June 2018
  • But others, like a tendency toward violence and verbal abuse, were inimical to family life.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
  • All will be impressed by the scale and skill of the production, by the passion that unites a town in a manner inimical to modern life, and by the performers’ faith in the power of theater.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • To Christian families, this lawsuit serves as the latest exhibit in a long line of evidence that public schools are inimical to their faith.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The education provided by the schools at issue here is inimical to a public education.
    — Fox News, 30 June 2022
  • Patrick has argued at some length that liberalism winds up being inimical to precisely the kinds of values that a liberal society needs to flourish.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • And Roenne’s daughter believes deliberate deception to be inimical to her father’s moral code.
    — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Once the Nazis came to power, Traven’s radical writings were deemed so inimical that his entire oeuvre was tossed onto bonfires.
    — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Translated for those who need it, during good times some of us develop bad habits, make lousy hires, commit capital less carefully, and all manner of other things inimical to progress.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • Lilly declined to comment on its support of the politicians who passed a law the company thinks is so inimical to its own interests and those of Hoosiers generally.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The group says the additional cattle and infrastructure would be inimical to the ecology of Tonto.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022

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