hellish
Use Hellish in a sentence
ɪʃ adjective
1.
of, like, or suitable to hell; infernal; vile; horrible: It was a hellish war.
2.
miserable; abominable; execrable: We had a hellish time getting through traffic.
3.
devilishly bad: The child's behavior was hellish most of the day.
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hellish (ˈhɛlɪʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of or resembling hell |
| 2. | wicked; cruel |
| 3. | informal very difficult or unpleasant |
| —adv | |
| 4. | informal (Brit) (intensifier): a hellish good idea |
| 'hellishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'hellishness | |
| —n | |
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Hellish
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
They have changed from being run with dignity and strong security into a hellish nightmare where corruption is the norm.
Moments later the music stops as abruptly as it began, and the hellish vision vanishes.
At the end, it was the sheer courage of the survivors that got them ashore under such a hellish crossfire.
We couldn't live without it, yet its noise can make life hellish for those in neighborhoods near airports.
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