hellhole

[hel-hohl]

noun

1. a place totally lacking in comfort, cleanliness, order, etc.

2. a place or establishment noted for its illegal or immoral practices.

hellhole

/ ˈhɛlˌhəʊl /

noun

1. an unpleasant or evil place

Word History and Origins

Origin of hellhole¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; hell, hole

Example Sentences

“D.C. was a hellhole and now it’s safe,” the president declared less than two weeks after deploying troops to the nation’s capital.

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"DC was a hellhole," he said earlier on Friday, a day after visiting some of the deployed troops.

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Even the cruelest policies, such as Trump’s illegal renditions of immigrants to hellhole prisons in other countries without due process guaranteed to all by the Constitution, evoke little protest.

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“I couldn’t sleep knowing that animals were just in those hellholes suffering,” said Dains, who now works at a shelter system in Sacramento.

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None of those men received any sort of due process before being shipped off to a Salvadoran hellhole.

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