inimical

an inimical alien power.

a climate inimical to health

a cold, inimical voice.

laws inimical to freedom

acts inimical to peace

inimical to one’s interests

the policy was inimical to Britain's real interests.

habits inimical to good health.

nations inimical to one another

But all they have sent back have been images of planets inimical to life.

Death is the enemy, and life itself is inimical, for all its bounty.

One's personal reaction depends on whether it has proved friendly or inimical.

The face opposite him was steadily losing its ingenuousness and becoming wary and inimical again.

Grimness was in every feature, and to its very bowels the inimical shape was desolation.

These transfers of wealth do not require the creation of new wealth-indeed, as we have seen, they may be actively inimical to it.

Half a century ago scientists discovered hot vents on the sea bed that were home to organisms living happily in conditions that, until then, had been thought inimical to life.

Nekhludoff saw that there was something inimical to him in her, which stood guard, as it were, over her as she was now, and prevented him from penetrating into her heart.

In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.