The phrase "unfriendly environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where an individual or group is made to feel unwelcome or unsafe due to the behavior of others. For example: "The office has become an increasingly unfriendly environment since the new manager took over."
Starting new programming services "is always done in an unfriendly environment," Mr. Diller said.
After all, they have been at war for decades in a complex region, fighting in a terribly unfriendly environment.
The unfriendly environment in Washington is coming just weeks after the CFPB was dealt another major blow.
Concluding that trading was a "severely unfriendly environment for women," she chose instead to be a broker-trainee in the firm's prestigious branch on Park Avenue.
All of which makes for a rather unfriendly environment; weird and secretive, and slightly reminiscent of somewhere such as Minsk in Belarus, under Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian rule.
More generally, the ENDF format provides an unfriendly environment that makes it difficult for new data evaluators and users to create and access nuclear data.
The Arabian Gulf is one of the most unfriendly environments for concrete structures due to the harsh chloride attack to reinforcing steel.
As the following quotation highlights, sex workers operated in competitive and unfriendly environments, making it difficult for them to discuss sexual health issues and strategies: From the way I look at it, a prostitute and a prostitute can't be good friends.
Infant children are sleeping in highly inappropriate arrangements, on the floor … It's absolutely a baby-unfriendly environment".
And I guess it's also possible that my lifelong indifference to water was something I got from him, a direct result of growing up in a water-unfriendly environment.
What we're left with is a filmmaker-unfriendly environment, one in which the search for the box-office home-run means that smaller films - which could be metaphorical singles and doubles, profit-wise - go begging, forced into the shark-like climate of what now passes for the independent film world.
