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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shithole of" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal and vulgar.
It can be used to describe a place or situation that is considered very unpleasant or undesirable.
Example: "After visiting the rundown neighborhood, I realized it was truly a shithole of a place."
Alternatives: "a dump of" or "a hellhole of".
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But, as things stand, I have to reckon things on the basis that it is better to have a shithole of a house than no house at all.
But this move from a few institutional voices into a scattered legion of micro-fandoms led us to where we are today: in a shithole of absolute confusion and disruption.
Many migrants learn what one Honduran teenager tells the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli in her new book, Tell Me How It Ends: "Hempstead is a shithole of pandilleros [gang members], just like Tegucigalpa".
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The Playstation on 14th Street was a total shithole of an illegal gambling den.
This is a shithole," she said of the neighborhood.
Beck was playing a gig in some shithole of a pub in King's Cross, and I went to his dressing room afterwards and took some pictures of him".
Fabien Dodard creative director of the ad agency Parkour Studio is currently working on running a series of ads in Washington, DC, all about how much of a shithole his homeland is.
"Can you tell me where we are going to be racing?" He said the US – "the greatest place in the world" – was a "bit of a shithole" compared with glitzy Azerbaijan.
The office was kind of a shithole.
Yes, the West End in San Antonio is a bit of a shithole.
The place is a bit of a shithole and they resent us for it!
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