Hellscape

//ˈhɛl.skeɪp// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hellish landscape.

    "a Dantesque hellscape"

  2. 2
    An exceptionally unpleasant, disagreeable, or harsh place or event. derogatory, figuratively

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

Synonyms

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mordor

Example

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"The 90s were such a bleak dystopian hellscape that people like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the best some countries had to offer for "opposition" to the reactionary zeitgeist."

Etymology

From hell + -scape.

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