hellhole

noun

hell·​hole ˈhel-ˌhōl How to pronounce hellhole (audio)
: a place of extreme misery or squalor

Examples of hellhole in a Sentence

The factory is a hellhole. his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood
Recent Examples on the Web
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Armstrong thinking Vegas is a total hellhole of a city hasn’t stopped him from showing up for the Green Day fans there. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024 The 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of the hero of a 1987 movie that made Detroit look like a flaming hellhole is on its back in a building somewhere within the 24-acre footprint of Eastern Market. Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024 Well, because the woke Democrats, like AOC and Alvin Bragg, have made NYC a hellhole. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2024 Critics will contend that a nation that fights only when vital interests are at stake will become oblivious to the suffering of those unfortunate people living in such hellholes as Syria. Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 See all Example Sentences for hellhole 

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hellhole was in 1850

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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellhole. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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