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shitstorm

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.
  2. Considerable backlash from the public.

Equivalents

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Examples

The hell with Brown […] He's been missing all the shit storms. It's his turn.”
“'Sometimes the pool-pah,' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as 'shit storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.”
““...seem’s he’s been tumbling ass over teakettlethough there’s no way to tell in this murky shitstorm, no visual references...””
“"You and your cowboys just stirred up a shitstorm, agent."”
“In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like a shitstorm, smells like a shitstorm and tastes like a shitstorm, it goes to homicide.”
When Abbott stated openly that his plan involved a new tax of 1.7% on large companies with big profit margins - those, in fact, most able to pay - he provoked a near universal shitstorm.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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