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hellish
[hel-ish]
adjective
of, like, or suitable to hell; infernal; vile; horrible.
It was a hellish war.
miserable; abominable; execrable.
We had a hellish time getting through traffic.
devilishly bad.
The child's behavior was hellish most of the day.
hellish
/ ˈɛɪʃ /
adjective
of or resembling hell
wicked; cruel
informalvery difficult or unpleasant
adverb
informal(intensifier)
a hellish good idea
Other 51Թ Forms
- hellishly adverb
- hellishness noun
- ˈ adverb
- ˈԱ noun
Example Sentences
“I stand with them. Reasonable people can disagree about Federal immigration policy, but raids as a policy designed to terrorize our neighbors and deport them to often hellish conditions is an attack on American values.”
On July 19, a TikTok user posted a video of a hellish line leading to customs, captioned “everyone back from their hot euro summer.”
“It was scary,” said Fine, and the hellish ordeal took another jarring turn when fire advanced on the facility where they’d just been transported, forcing a second evacuation.
From the rubble, many found small trinkets that brought them smiles and, occasionally, a moment of joy amid the hellish ordeal.
His release, she said, has returned her family to a “state of hellish angst.”
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