Hellish and Wretched

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Hellish

Hellish adjective - Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.
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Wretched and hellish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wretched" instead an adjective "Hellish".
Nearby Words: hell, hellishly

Wretched

Wretched adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.
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Hellish and wretched are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hellish" instead an adjective "Wretched".
Nearby Words: wretch, wretchedly

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  • Video Game / Planescape: Torment Wretched Hive: Curst, so wretched that the whole city gets dragged into Carceri, a hellish prison plane.
    Source: Video Game / Planescape: Torment
  • Wretched Hive: A lot of the worlds outside the core of the Empire see Earth itself this way while, more specifically, the Undercity is a hellish urban nightmare with a life expectancy measured in a mere few decades.
    Source: Literature / The Empire's Corps
  • Big Applesauce If a story depicts New York as an unlivable hellish Wretched Hive (and is usually set during the period from the mid 1960s through the early 1990s), the sub-trope of Big Applesauce, The Big Rotten Apple, comes into play.
    Source: Big Applesauce
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