Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place of extreme wretchedness or squalor.
- noun Obsolete The pit of hell.
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- noun A
place of intense hatred,misery , or turmoil.
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- noun any place of pain and turmoil
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Examples
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He drew controversy with his comments last summer about Lafave and prison: To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole is like placing a piece of raw meat in with the lions.
Archive 2006-03-01 JDsg 2006
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He drew controversy with his comments last summer about Lafave and prison: To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole is like placing a piece of raw meat in with the lions.
Update: LaFave Charges Dropped JDsg 2006
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Anything that helps transform Red State America into a rusty industrial hellhole is fine by me. fostert says:
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Forcing poor minority people to live your commie welfare-state hellhole is racist.
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I know that San Antonio isn't necessarily the best town in the US (although we like it) but calling it a hellhole is going a bit far.
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The reality that the only reason we’re IN this desert hellhole is oil for our ridiculous ‘Hummers & SUVs … never dawns on him.
Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change 2006
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He's now at what's been described as the hellhole in Terre Haute, IN, in an area of right wing extremism and KKK influence, in a deliberate act of further barbaric vengeance to break his spirit, restrict his access to legal help and his family, and cause him undue pain and suffering in an age of US-sanctioned and authorized torture as a method of social control and inhumanity and because no dissenting authority has the courage to challenge Washington's willingness to go against the most basic principles of equity and justice.
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He's now at what's been described as the hellhole in Terre Haute, IN, in an area of right wing extremism and KKK influence, in a deliberate act of further barbaric vengeance to break his spirit, restrict his access to legal help and his family, and cause him undue pain and suffering in an age of US-sanctioned and authorized torture as a method of social control and inhumanity and because no dissenting authority has the courage to challenge Washington's willingness to go against the most basic principles of equity and justice.
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While Manzanilllo's beaches don't remind me of 'the South Pacific' (or the Caribbean for that matter), the word 'hellhole' does not even come to mind when I think of that port city! wendy devlin
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While Manzanilllo's beaches don't remind me of 'the South Pacific' (or the Caribbean for that matter), the word 'hellhole' does not even come to mind when I think of that port city! wendy devlin
reesetee commented on the word hellhole
Aptly describes my office at present. :-)
September 27, 2007