as in hell
a state in which everything is out of order
it looks like heck in that boy's bedroom
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Recent Examples of heck
And is one heck of an ambassador for Central Florida.
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Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025
The sound cautioned us to stay the heck out of their way.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
Secondary storyline: Meant most politely, who the heck are you, Nate Schmidt?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2025
What the heck is happening with passwords at Microsoft?
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for heck
Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025
The sound cautioned us to stay the heck out of their way.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
Secondary storyline: Meant most politely, who the heck are you, Nate Schmidt?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2025
What the heck is happening with passwords at Microsoft?
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for heck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heck
Noun
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Whether a dream or not, Devon’s definitely in her own personal hell.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
22 May 2025
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Voters from the United States to the Netherlands have installed far right-wing, anti-immigration, anti-people governments hell bent on punishing migration via the most inhumane measures imaginable.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Smoke follows a detective (Jurnee Smollett) and an arson investigator (Taron Egerton) who are trying to catch a pair of serial arsonists wreaking fiery havoc across the Pacific Northwest.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
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Infusing the trenches with Allen and Hargrave should make for more havoc in one-on-one matchups.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
Noun
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This daily upkeep keeps messes manageable and prevents them from accumulating to an overwhelming level.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 May 2025
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Watching people getting clobbered with mops, or Stitch making messes and starting fires at the open-air beach resort where Nani works — the funny’s diminished in live-action.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
Noun
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Heck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heck. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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