hellishness
- a word derived from hellish.
Example Sentences
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It’s a scene of bureaucratic hellishness about poverty’s wretched cycle of hopelessness that wouldn’t be out of place in a chilly Romanian satire.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022
“All Lawrence’s novels are about the hellishness of home,” Wilson writes.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021
Critics relish imbuing his lyrics with literary significance—the BBC once compared “Tilt” to “Finnegans Wake”—but I like to think that Walker was just making a series of increasingly absurd jokes about the hellishness of existence.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
Think of the prenup and the hellishness of his divorces.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018
You are a stranger who ambled in, heard a sensational newspaper report of anti-ally criminal intent, and on the spot accused the highly respectable Granados rancho of indulging in that same variety of hellishness!
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley
