Definition of “hellish”

Five years later Lionel was still able to recall the minutest details of the next hellish forty-eight hours.

I found it perversely comforting to know that I was not the only man in the Close who was enduring a hellish morning.

In the hellish heat of the room the spilled milk went bad in a heartbeat, souring on the sheets.

Journey ok for first bit, utterly hellish for the Paris--Bordeaux leg.

Last night survivors told how what should have been a time of prayer turned into a hellish nightmare.

Mum Jean, 58, said: "He fought hard against a hellish illness.

That world view was obliterated 10 years later in the hellish trenches of Europe during the First World War.

To be fair, men are also capable of being hellish in banal ways.

Trapped in a sweltering, hellish summer, Earth will become like its sister planet, Venus.