living hell

NOUN

hell

Synonyms

WEAK

Abaddon Gehenna Hades abyss affliction agony anguish blazes bottomless pit difficulty everlasting fire fire and brimstone grave hellfire infernal regions inferno limbo lower world misery nether world nightmare ordeal pandemonium perdition persecution pit place of torment purgatory suffering torment torture tortures of the damned trial underworld wretchedness

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"I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

But let me tell you, a 72-year-old woman pounding the living hell out of a punching bag ain’t weak.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025

But demand for cats to be rehomed has become "overwhelming" and the sheer number of cats can be "a living hell" which many people do not understand.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2023

Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

And that’s when Alex knew that Jordan McCreevey was going to make his life a living hell.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

living hell

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