Thesaurus results for HELLHOLE

hellhole

noun

ˈhel-ˌhōl

Definition of hellhole

as in dump

a dirty or messy place his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood

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Recent Examples of hellhole Pritzker has been trying to debunk claims that Chicago is an out-of-control hellhole; to assert in court that the federal government has no right to send in federal troops; and to discredit the tactics by immigration agents to arrest migrants in his state’s streets and businesses. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025 Who wants to work to separate family members from each other or put people in a hellhole in the Everglades? — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025 She was immediately put on the next plane back to her Third World hellhole. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025 Crimea and the Donbas are economic hellholes and huge drains on Russian resources. — Alexander J. Motyl, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2016 See All Example Sentences for hellhole

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Noun

Don’t prepare your end-of-summer photo dumps just yet, because there’s technically still a few more weeks before the kids are back in school and there’s a crispness in the air.

— Christina Perrier, InStyle, 10 Aug. 2026
The latest document dump is part of an ongoing government effort to make UFO records public.

— Terry Moseley, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of dump

Noun

Instead of slicing and dicing the zucchini, grate it on the large holes of a box grater or the grater attachment of a food processor.

— Kate Williams, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Naughton said as students arrived for the meetup at the school’s blacktop, the district began filling in a hole on the blacktop from a tree that had been removed earlier in the summer.

— Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of hole

Noun

De Wet claims Olivier then ordered him to dispose of their bodies in a pigsty — an act prosecutors believe was meant to destroy evidence.

— Christina Coulter, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025

Definition of pigsty

Noun

The result leaves nearly every performer fumbling for traction in Serkis and Stoller’s muddy-yet-gutless cinematic sty.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
In 1981, he was elected mayor, if not quite the Zohran Mamdani of the Reagan revolution (Mamdani won by two hundred thousand votes, not ten), then at least a sty in the Gipper’s eye.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026