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We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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Set in a Southern English town, the film follows Xavier Prince (Lukeba), a deeply troubled man whose good deed turns into a hellish nightmare when he’s accused of murder.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The blood seeps up the edges of her white skirts — that’s going to be hellish to try to get out.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
Finding the beauty in that hellish croak — something that Josh Groban was able to do in the last Broadway revival — can prove exceptionally difficult.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The blood seeps up the edges of her white skirts — that’s going to be hellish to try to get out.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
Finding the beauty in that hellish croak — something that Josh Groban was able to do in the last Broadway revival — can prove exceptionally difficult.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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