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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are inimical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is harmful or hostile to something else.
Example: "The policies implemented by the government are inimical to the interests of small businesses."
Alternatives: "are detrimental" or "are hostile".
Dictionary
are inimical
adjective
Harmful in effect.
synonyms
Exact(55)
Book culture and non-disclosure agreements are inimical.
They hope it will counter the Gulf channels that are inimical to Bashar Assad, Syria's president.
Both remedies are inimical to secrecy and are of high constitutional importance.
Johnson said the EU had taken "decisions that are inimical to our ability to mount serious surveillance operations against terrorists".
His central beliefs are inimical to an institution as unique, complicated and publicly funded as the BBC.
Perhaps, while so many of the prevailing conditions in America are inimical to excellence, others are sympathetic to it.
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Relations between Jogaila and his uncle Kęstutis, however, were inimical.
That would be inimical to the internet's protean nature.
But competition can also be inimical to friendship.
Such alliances were inimical to McEwan's wife.
That, of course, would be inimical to press freedom.
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