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What does hellscape mean?

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Noun
  1. A hellish landscape.
  2. (colloquial) An exceptionally unpleasant, disagreeable, or harsh place or thing.
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His London is a dystopian hellscape riddled by sickness, injustice, cold, and want.
Philedelphia cops in the 1960s first used Black Friday to describe the hellscape of snarled traffic and Christmas-shopping stampedes the day after Thanksgiving.
Instead, we are privy to something realistically ugly: a hellscape of gossip, dominated by old men making mean remarks about the miscarriages of potential queens.
And for that purpose it is necessary not to think of the camps simply as a hellscape.
It isn't the development that David Brillembourg envisioned, but it isn't a Ballardian hellscape either.
I suppose it's understandable for an east-coaster to view things that way, coming from a world of no public wilderness areas, just an unending concrete hellscape.

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