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
During the hellish month preceding his murder, the boy was also denied his prescription medications, jurors heard at the trial.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
During the hellish month preceding his murder, the boy was also denied his prescription medications, jurors heard at the trial.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Alberto painted a picture of a hellish home life in Argentina — their parents’ infidelity, divorce, abandonment, and physical and emotional abuse.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
During the hellish month preceding his murder, the boy was also denied his prescription medications, jurors heard at the trial.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Alberto painted a picture of a hellish home life in Argentina — their parents’ infidelity, divorce, abandonment, and physical and emotional abuse.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellish
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Wade has been in a horrible slump since the season started and going in to Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels is hitting .096 (5-for-52) with a homer, seven RBIs, eight walks and an on base percentage of .213.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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The Braves desperately need to add a shortstop and some offensive help amid their horrible start to the season.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City Before the turn of the year, Manchester City were stuck in an awful rut.—
Sam Tighe,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The grandson of the benefactor whose maiden name christens the auditorium itself (The Fish Theater, which spawns a stream of awful fish puns as long as a whale), Jack was born into ballet and defends dance with every fiber of his being.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2025
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Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.—
M. Gessen,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2025
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Annexing Greenland is also a dreadful idea, as is throwing down the gauntlet to reclaim the Panama Canal — a subtle act of war.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Mar. 2025
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PreSonus has also added something called a soft start circuit that stops the speakers from making the hideous thumping sound that some speakers can produce when they are turned on or off.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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It must be emphasized that these companies are not just enabling hideous criminal activity, but directly profiting from it.—
Aaron Ping,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2025
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And once the sickening jolts of the combat takeoff had ended and Bui slowly grew accustomed to the noise and the pressure of the C-130, the taste of KFC stopped his crying.—
Jennifer Brookland,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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To take but one example, the riots that convulsed swatches of England and Northern Ireland last year were fueled by social media accounts claiming sickening crimes by immigrants, amplified by right-wing accounts.—
David Robert Grimes,
Scientific American,
3 Apr. 2025
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In a shocking twist that nobody would've believed a week ago, the Browns spent their final pick, in the fifth round, on Shedeur Sanders.—
Bryce Lazenby,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
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Porsha Williams’ birthday trip ended with a shocking accusation on the April 27 episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellish. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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