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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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Police say Damian A. made their lives "a living hell".

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

I just had the surgery five weeks ago and then I had to be on two weeks vocal rest, which was living hell.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

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

It’s a living hell but it’s at least something.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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