as in horrible
of, resembling, or befitting hell
We've been having hellish weather lately. The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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Recent Examples of hellish
Well, that hellish censorious atmosphere didn’t last long.
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The letter also lifted the lid on some of the hellish conditions at MDC Brooklyn, where Combs has been since last September.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
This was a test of endurance, against each other and against the hellish conditions in the ring.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Change, even from his hellish situation, felt threatening.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The letter also lifted the lid on some of the hellish conditions at MDC Brooklyn, where Combs has been since last September.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
This was a test of endurance, against each other and against the hellish conditions in the ring.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Change, even from his hellish situation, felt threatening.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellish
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And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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But during the difficult years, when a horrible cocktail of apathy and toxicity set in, attendance was notably lower.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Stanford has been awful on the road, losing to Hawaii and getting blown out by BYU and Virginia.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Since that time, says Paine, even those fortunate enough to live under benevolent rule have seldom been more than one generation away from yet another dreadful monarch.—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Since quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a significant turf toe injury in the second quarter of the Bengals’ Week 2 win over the Jaguars, backup quarterback Jake Browning and the Cincinnati offense have been dreadful.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Jets did precious little against the hideous Dallas defense and, on the other side of the ball, allowed scoring drives of 90 and 91 yards.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Just a sickening day for Jameson Williams’ managers.—
Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Those recalls were the major change in Friday’s FDA update on the outbreak, credited with sickening 20 people and killing four, one of which was a fetus, over 15 states.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
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And in a shocking twist, it was revealed that on one of the highest voting nights, no celebrity will be going home this week.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold became the first smartphone to explode during a JerryRigEverything durability test, marking a shocking moment in YouTuber Zack Nelson’s decade-long history of stress-testing devices.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellish. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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