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hellhole
[ hel-hohl ]
noun
- a place totally lacking in comfort, cleanliness, order, etc.
- a place or establishment noted for its illegal or immoral practices.
hellhole
/ ˈhɛlˌhəʊl /
noun
- an unpleasant or evil place
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They'd tell you immediately that we need security around our ambassador in a hellhole like Benghazi.
“This place was a hellhole,” says Akram Mohamed Ramadan, a rebel fighter who came to visit the prison on Friday.
From these headquarters, Maria Leon and her family had turned the neighborhood into a hellhole.
At least I could comfort myself with the thought that the mom and kid got out of that hellhole alive.
How did you research that portrait of Aden, which seems like the most terrifying hellhole I can imagine?
The flag which floats over every hellhole of mine and mill and prison?
But near the Mammoth Hot Springs is a hellhole that did attract me.
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