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
There's still 73 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in those same hellish tunnels.
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Destinee Adams, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
Ku-DiPietro passed with a lowly 67.7% accuracy, with that figure dropping further to a hellish 66.6% in the attacking half and 62.6% in the final third.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Not one dollar of capital can be raised while Gaza is a hellish war zone.
—David Friedman, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Enroute to the sun, the probe serendipitously also caught rare closeups of passing comets and shed light on how Venus, Earth's hellish twin, may have lost its water.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Destinee Adams, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
Ku-DiPietro passed with a lowly 67.7% accuracy, with that figure dropping further to a hellish 66.6% in the attacking half and 62.6% in the final third.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Not one dollar of capital can be raised while Gaza is a hellish war zone.
—David Friedman, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Enroute to the sun, the probe serendipitously also caught rare closeups of passing comets and shed light on how Venus, Earth's hellish twin, may have lost its water.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellish
Adjective
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Some compare Sanders to Geno Smith — not flattering, but not horrible.—
Troy Renck,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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Everybody's going to be thrown, according to , into all these horrible situations.—
Hugh Cameron,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For a large part, the Heat’s supporting pieces have been awful this season.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2025
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Hollywood continued to celebrate the fearless first responders who worked to save lives and property during the awful Los Angeles wildfires last month.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Rossoneri have been in dreadful form as of late, and their latest defeat could spell the beginning of the end for the Portuguese coach.—
Emmet Gates,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The team made only five of its 28 3-point attempts Tuesday; after that dreadful performance, the Magic have made a league-worst 30.4 percent of their long-range shots this season.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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When the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, Moore becomes the decaying mutation called Gollum, made to look like a slow-progressing disease, while Moore and her younger incarnation (played by Margaret Qualley), merge into the hideous Monstro.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2025
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But the idea of a woman who is kind of crippled, or is struggling physically, to have the one and only thing that is supporting her, kicked out from underneath her is so vile and hideous.—
Maelle Beauget-Uhl,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Rosemary Farm in Santa Maria, California, has struggled to get by as bird flu ravages poultry populations across the U.S., sickening and killing birds and causing egg prices to spike.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Plastic straws were also noted sticking out of sea turtle nostrils, and sickening or killing seabirds, fish, manatees, dolphins and other marine mammals.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The newest Trump administration and the shocking vote that happened this week at the UN, the U.S. siding with North Korea in that vote.—
ABC NEWS,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the wake of such shocking, there is inevitable pain.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellish. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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