Words similar to hellish

Example sentences for: hellish

How can you use “hellish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in psychiatric bills later, I can speak about this with limited objectivity; the point is that, although very young when taken from my primary caregivers--my grandparents--I recall both the joy of my years with them and the hellish trauma of separation more vividly than much of what happened to me last week.
For non-epopts: reading these is like reading Jane Austen--with every so often a hellish sea battle or shipwreck.
Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.
Back down the hellish road from the cape, and due west, is the isolated beach Platja Binimella.
He is a product of the hellish post-Stalinist bureaucracy, a place where betrayal was a much better career strategy than principle.