hostile climate
Frequency: 5.85.5 per million words
An unfriendly or difficult environment.
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- The new manager's policies created a hostile climate of fear and mistrust among the staff.
- Journalists often have to work in a politically hostile climate where their safety is at risk.
- Due to new regulations, foreign investors are facing an increasingly hostile climate.
- She found it difficult to voice her opinions in the university's intellectually hostile climate.
- After the scandal, he returned to his hometown to find a hostile climate of gossip and suspicion.
- The online forum quickly devolved into a hostile climate, making productive discussion impossible.
- No one can thrive in such a hostile climate where every idea is immediately criticized.
- The organization is dedicated to changing the hostile climate for minority groups in the city.
- The company's failure was partly due to the hostile climate created by intense market competition.
- Enduring the hostile climate at that company for years eventually took a toll on her mental health.