hellfare

Noun

1. Deplorable welfare; welfare that causes more anguish than good.
   • He hesitated again before he said: “Well, we have done a lot of welfare work." “Welfare!" I exclaimed. “You can boast of that? You must know what labor calls that—hellfare work." - 1989, Saul Alinsky, Reveille for...
   • I am willing to pay a fair amount, but not to be mulcted in that vindictive way, and nuts to the Hellfare State. - 2008, Norman T. Gates, Richard Aldington:
   • Not surprisingly, the quest for resources other than from the public purse received no small urging by governments and Ministry, though obviously the degree of pressure brought to bear and the means by which it was...