Those areas are little better than hellholes, but people cannot escape from them: they have no alternative accommodation because of the housing crisis.
With the noise and dust, every pit was a hellhole.
The argument was clear that neither of us should be employed in the pits because they were hellholes and were not desirable places for people to work.
It becomes his choice to make the world a hellhole of debauchery or to keep as it is.
