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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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He described his life since Leo's death as a "living hell", adding: "Leo, I will always miss you and I will get justice for you."

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Because Deborah has it, and she’s made the lives of her loved ones a living hell because of it.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

I put it on, I got in the shower, everything was fine, then when the chanting came on it scared the living hell out of me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

She likened Baron Cohen to a "fourth-grade bully who teases the fat girl on the playground and tries to make her life a living hell".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2024

The article that appeared the next morning called the Mosses’ mobile home “a living hell for children.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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