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hellish

/ˈhɛlɪʃ/ adjective C2
  1. infernal, related or similar to hell.
  2. causing great pain, discomfort or distress. · I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.
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Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 192 · C1

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