hellish

[ UK /hˈɛlɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛɫɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (informal) very unpleasant
    hellish weather
    stop that god-awful racket
  2. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
    satanic cruelty
    diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils
    a fiendish despot
    infernal instruments of war
    fires lit up a diabolic scene
    hellish torture
    something demonic in him--something that could be cruel
    unholy grimaces
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How To Use hellish In A Sentence

  • He paints a hellish picture in which sea and sky become indistinguishable and the men battle for survival.
  • It must be hellish for people who care about the teams on a personal level, because no matter how good your school's team is, they have to win six games in a row against the best teams in the country, amped up to play you.
  • He suddenly missed the hellish heat and the blinding sun of Orlando.
  • He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.
  • Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
  • The early-evening fog was rolling in on a hellish breeze. Three Stages of Amazement
  • Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
  • Scientists have found many planets like HD 209458 b – huge gas giants that orbit hazardously close to their stars and have hellishly hot, poisonous atmospheres.
  • The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
  • I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias. The Thirty-Nine Steps
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