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were inimical
adjective
Harmful in effect.
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Such alliances were inimical to McEwan's wife.
Relations between Jogaila and his uncle Kęstutis, however, were inimical.
Who said cotton mills were inimical to culture?
Truffaut famously said that the words "British" and "cinema" were inimical.
He possessed two failings that were inimical to the autocratic studio domains: he drank, and he was scornful of his bosses.
A few months ago so, very belatedly—I became aware that the kind of mental rhythms that online reading and writing evoke and celebrate were inimical to the kind of work I'm trying to do.
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Book culture and non-disclosure agreements are inimical.
That would be inimical to the internet's protean nature.
But competition can also be inimical to friendship.
Most are likely to be inimical to Brexit.
Markets are inimical to innovation because they crave equilibrium.
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