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
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
The movie put a frame around the hellishness of what millions of Americans in bland, blocky suburban office parks experience every day, clarifying just how soul-deadening their lives had become.
From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2017
The darkness made it worse, and although I had been over the top before by daylight this was the last limit of hellishness.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
