hellscape

Noun

1. A hellish landscape.
   • a Dantesque hellscape
   • As they crossed the Western Slope toward Utah, the dark began to come down again. The setting sun threw an orange-red glare over a fragmented hellscape that none of them could look at for long; one by one, they followed...
   • Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these...
2. An exceptionally unpleasant, disagreeable, or harsh place or event.
   • Miley Cyrus just got really honest about the hellscape that was "Hannah Montana" - 2015 August 14, Chris Eggertsen, “Miley Cyrus just got really honest about the hellscape that was 'Hannah Montana'”, in HitFix, archived...
   • Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a...
   • But, he added, “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!” - 2022 October 27, Lauren Hirsch, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Reaches Out to Advertisers Ahead...