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hellish

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After many hellish months in Liberia, it seems the worst could be over.

But there is much to be said for a private, hellish experience becoming an issue of public debate.

From Ferguson to Gaza to Iraq, this summer has been hellish.

He was finally released in 2004, after almost 40 hellish years of brutal internment.

And that means it has to potential to redeem Christie—or make his already-hellish 2014 much, much worse.

This, they said, was no human being like themselves; such hellish practices could have but one origin.

So this was the accursed one who had done the hellish deed, and it was human folly that had caused this demoniacal explosion.

This allusion to the hellish gambling which went on in the dead man's house, was his only funeral oration.

They are the night force come on deck for a breath of air between working their shifts in the hellish heat below.

They saw the oncoming hordes of brutes in a hellish-looking garb, and they sent back the answer: "Retire be damned!"

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hellish, such as: horrible, infernal, terrible, abominable, accursed, and atrocious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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