(a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
Example Sentences:
(1) - come up with something like this hellishly raw and poorly recorded album, but only if you were very, very lucky.
(2) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
(3) Unlike many of his countrymen, however, his family said Berhe stayed put in Sudan while he tried to find a safer route to the west than the hellish route through the Sahara and across the Mediterranean.
(4) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
(5) Reading it now, the subtext says, "If I came through that hellish experience and my whole shitty life without anti-depressants, which don't work anyway, you should be able to cope without them".
(6) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
(7) Many families speak of their gratitude to police family liaison officers, whose job is to escort them to court and to try and shield them through a hellish time.
(8) The Richmond Park byelection and prospects for a progressive alliance | Letters Read more “But that would still be hellishly difficult,” he insists.
(9) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
(10) Save us from the great peeling monster,” you would cry, as Trump screamed from his hellish peel-pit: “The skin is not the best bit!
(11) This rule was the main source of the formation of very long queues under the sun – people had to line up for hours and hours on a daily basis in the hellish hot weather of Manus island for just having food.
(12) Amnesty’s report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, described the treatment of migrants by traffickers as “hellish” and warned that hundreds – possibly thousands – may have perished because of the “disastrous consequences” of Thailand’s crackdown.
(13) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
(14) "For me personally, there have been several months when it has been hellish, but during that process I've actually been very well supported by a raft of very good friends," Flowers told the BBC.
(15) We Americans have gone from one hellish Christmas to the next, and brave protesters have been occupying malls and interrupting shoppers’ business as usual.
(16) The first female leader of CAR, and only the third in Africa, has inherited a hellish legacy that leaves her trying pull the country back from the brink of civil war.
(17) Recently he used an interview to slag off a whole bunch of hellish people, namely spendy Russians.
(18) That kind of behaviour can be just as bad as physical abuse if someone is living in a hellish situation day-in, day-out.
(19) "While this hellish day signalled the end of the 160 million-year reign of the dinosaurs, it turned out to be a great day for mammals, who had lived in the shadow of the dinosaurs prior to this event."
(20) Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.
Terrible
Definition:
(a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
(a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
(2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(3) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(4) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(5) We have to balance the risk posed to the environment by DDT with the terrible impact this virus is having on the unborn.” Britain is unlikely to be affected because Aedes aegypti cannot survive the cold of UK winters.
(6) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(7) I myself spent years – years – in a terrible kind of politically correct phase where I travelled to Nicaragua and called it “Niquragua” to observe the Sandinista revolution firsthand.
(8) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(9) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
(10) One of the terrible ironies of the Iraq War is that President Bush used the threat of nuclear terrorism to invade a country that had no active nuclear program.
(11) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(12) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
(13) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
(14) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
(15) The experience of his wife's prolonged and terrible illness had not changed his mind, Inge said, but had made him understand, "at a heart and gut level" what the implications of a law on assisted suicide would be.
(16) This time he looked like a nodding dog in the back of a car that's been in a terrible crash.
(17) Michaels' Ms brainwave did not take root as quickly as she hoped - "It was terribly frustrating, because no one wanted to hear about it.
(18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
(19) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(20) This is a terrible government, and the Tories are deeply divided.