J. D. Vance

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

American Author

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

South African Author

Will Self

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

English Author

Ha-Joon Chang

The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

South Korean Economist

Robert Shea

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Luxembourger Architect

Lee Kuan Yew

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

Statesman

Stephen Sondheim

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

American Composer

Use 'inimical' to suggest something leads to bad results.

Negative Outcome

Expresses a tone that is not supportive or encouraging.

Unfriendly Tone

Shows strong disagreement or conflict with someone or something.

Strong Opposition

Indicates something is blocking progress or development.

Obstructive

Suggests actions or policies that prevent growth or improvement.

Growth Inhibitor

Used when something disturbs peace or cooperative efforts.

Inimical