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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That inimical Hyper Burst midsole felt the same — what a relief!
  — Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The idea of military glory was inimical to his and Jeanne-Claude’s conception of art, to their sense of freedom and beauty and their longing for a shared humanity.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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 #BelieveSurvivors mantra is a cornerstone of the campus grievance industry but inimical to everything that a law school should teach.
  — Heather Mac Donald, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• This idea tends to be a dismaying possibility to science-fiction authors like me (and is inimical to the entire premise of my first novel!).
  — Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 12 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The group says the additional cattle and infrastructure would be inimical to the ecology of Tonto.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The prosecution of them, for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Oct. 2019
• For the island nation of 22 million to make a recovery, the financial boost is only one part of the puzzle—implementation is the next, and public resistance could well be inimical to that.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
• Yet Wulf points out that nothing in his philosophy was inimical to morality.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The pro-democracy revolution that toppled Sudan’s president is inimical to Mr. el-Sisi, a military general who has ruled with an iron fist since coming to power in a coup in 2013.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• In other words, repealing the estate tax would be a massive handout to rich families, enabling them to concentrate their wealth to an extent the Founding Fathers found inimical to society.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024