hellish
adjective
of, like, or suitable to hell; infernal; vile; horrible.
hellishness
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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
Rather than admit the hellishness of whole turkey, we indulge in a masochistic search for the “best” way to roast the bird.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 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
Never from the foundations of the earth," says De Quincey, "was there such a trial as this, if it were laid open in all its beauty of defence and all its hellishness of attack.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler
