as in dump
a dirty or messy place
his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood
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Recent Examples of hellhole
To hear Todd Johnson tell it, Waldo is a barbaric hellhole, a lawless territory where criminals pillage with near impunity.
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David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
As my Times colleague Julia Wick reported this week, conservatives — long convinced that the city by the Bay is a progressive hellhole of homelessness, unchecked crime and drug addiction — are holding their collective noses to cheer for the 49ers in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
—Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
The Arkansas plantation house in which generations of the family have lived, in eyeshot of the cemetery where generations of their slaves are buried, is now a hellhole in spirit and fact.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Nobody wants concerts to turn into airport-security hellholes with body-cavity searches.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
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Thanksgiving Day will bring a mess of rain for the I-95 corridor from Florida to Maine, and heavy snow for the interior Northeast and New England.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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Those drips and drops will dry out to become an ooey, gooey, stuck-on mess that is much harder to clean.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
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The company completed 18 drill holes at MacArthur and four core drill holes at Yerington.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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At the bottom was a chain-link fence with an enormous hole.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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James Scotto See it for yourselves Brooklyn: The president and the mayor should take a walk to see what a pigsty Floyd Bennett Field has become.Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
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Authorities imprisoned many imams and converted many mosques into barns, warehouses, and even pigsties.Haiyun Ma, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2023
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No pigpen-cleanup required!Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2021
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If the Hogs couldn’t win the day in their pigpen, with Bryce Young sidelined since the second quarter with a sprained shoulder, after scoring 23 straight points in the midst of a rare, extended Alabama meltdown, will this ridiculous streak ever end?Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
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The designation will bring international recognition to the sties, which aren’t well known even to many Ohioans.Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
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We're admittedly smitten with this stage-to-sty story, which is apparently a sequel.Country Living, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022
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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellhole. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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