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What is the adjective form of "nemesis"?

If I have a non-person object or idea that I consider to be my nemesis1, how could I refer to the object as a noun but use an embellishing adjective to emphasize that the object is my nemesis?

For instance, "Since the end of World War II, Communism has been the [nemesisical] ideology of the United States."

Some words that come to mind include adversarial, opposing, antagonistic, but these don't have quite the same meaning.


1This question was prompted by a question on the 'Programmers' Stack: Do you have a [programming] language that's your nemesis?

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