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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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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

Amid her troubled marriage to Charles, Diana was frequently exploited by tabloids and harassed by paparazzi, who made her life a living hell.

From Salon • Sep. 22, 2023

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

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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