hellish

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"Experienced residents sense when a temperature change is about to take place and get indoors It's--hellish," Barrent said, at a loss for words That describes it perfectly," the priest said.

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  1. adjective Of, resembling, or worthy of hell; fiendish.
  2. adjective Highly unpleasant: hellish weather.

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  • Expect episodic wall-to-wall and sky-to-earth mayhem as the hellish wasteland throws everything, from ambushing ghouls to skinless hounds and killer crows, at the nomadic survivors led by Claire (Ali Larter, Heroes ) and Carlos (Oded Fehr). —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • All the memories of her hellish, abusive marriage dissolved beneath his coaxing mouth, beneath his gentle exploration of her as a woman. —  A Man Alone by Lindsay Mckenna
  • Williams's Singapore Three and the heavenly, hellish, and cyber realms that surround it and interpenetrate it are a self-contained literary universe unto themselves. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • You're stressed or maybe even a little emotional (traffic was hellish, the Cavaliers lost?!, the kids are having sharing issues), and you're staring into the pantry, wondering what to make for dinner. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • As for the hellish slaughter, where do you think the gangs get the guns?
 

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fiendish ·  infernal ·  murderous ·  frightful ·  unholy ·  horrid ·  unbearable ·  gruesome ·  inhuman ·  unspeakable ·  unrelenting ·  unearthly
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  1. = Dutch helsch = Middle Low German hellisch, helsch = Middle High German hellisch, German höllisch; as hell + -ish.
 

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/ˈhɛlɪʃ/
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