Meaning of hellscape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hellish landscape.
2. An exceptionally unpleasant, disagreeable, or harsh place or event.
   derogatory, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“a Dantesque hellscape”

“As they crossed the Western Slope toward Utah, the dark began to come down again. The setting sun threw an orange-red glare over a fragmented hellscape that none of them could look at for long; one by one, they followed Bethany's example and pulled their windowshades.”

“Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.”

““Traveling at near light speed, one year passed for Nik while eight years passed for Mari on Scotia. Once a thriving Celestial world, now a radioactive hellscape. Some expeditions to her harsh surface found priceless artifacts. Most found death.””

“Miley Cyrus just got really honest about the hellscape that was "Hannah Montana"”

“Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.”

“But, he added, “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!””

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