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
The basics remain the same: Four players take control of survivors attempting to escape a dingy hellhole, while a fifth takes the role of a roaming psychopath trying to kill them.
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Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
She was immediately put on the next plane back to her Third World hellhole.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
The desert city, oasis or hellhole or both, can’t help but bounce back.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
Because that once promising social media public square has, instead, turned into a social media public hellhole.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
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Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
She was immediately put on the next plane back to her Third World hellhole.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
The desert city, oasis or hellhole or both, can’t help but bounce back.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
Because that once promising social media public square has, instead, turned into a social media public hellhole.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellhole
Noun
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In December, a 10-day-old baby girl was found dead in a garbage dump in the city of Baghpat.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Other improvements can include the cleaning up of dump sites and new parks.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By contrast, the ICE facility was a mess of overflowing dumpsters, loose body armor and crowd control munitions and a broken HVAC air conditioning system that raised both temperatures and tempers in the aging building.—
Keith Wilson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Carving out the insides of a jack o'lantern leaves you with a big ol mess of pumpkin seeds and innards.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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Buffalo’s forward depth has already been tested early in the season, and Danforth is a versatile player who helps the Sabres plug holes in the bottom six.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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When the Chicago rat hole went viral, Magle and his team considered how the mark was made.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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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
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Regard your property as an investment in a pigsty, and visitors will treat it thus.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?—
Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com,
al,
2 Oct. 2022
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Police came back the next day and found the boy's remains in the family's pigpen.—
Christine Pelisek,
Peoplemag,
12 Aug. 2022
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For patients with eyelid infections, this buildup is a common cause of dryness, itchiness, eyelash loss and even recurrent sties.—
Kameryn Griesser,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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Vance's office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one dedicated to learning about Greenlandic culture with stops at historical sties and its national dogsled race.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellhole. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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