toxic hellstew
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed and Pileup likely to go unpatched on tens, if not hundreds of millions of Android devices, the platform is fast becoming a toxic hellstew that should send chills down the spines of IT admins."
- "To illustrate his point, he quoted the title of a recent article by ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, a self-described "big fan of Android." ¶ The article's title? "Android fragmentation turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities" – and Cook's slide of that quote added animated flames to the word "hellstew.""
- "But the iTunes Store back-end is a toxic hellstew of unreliability. Everything that touches the iTunes Store has a spotty record for me and almost every Mac owner I know."
- "But it's worth spending time on iTunes's specific design problems, which surpass those raised by managing a music library or listening to a specific genre. Toxic hellstew it may be, a new version of iTunes points at what kinds of technology are allowed to come out of Apple. Apple is the most valuable company in the world and an organization hailed for its good design. Why does iTunes fail at what it sets out to do?"
- "So in the light of the Israel Hamas conflict and the reports of misinformation I’d like to go into more detail on section 230 and convey just how this innocent sounding law turned the internet into a toxic hellstew of negativity."
Etymology
Briefly popularized by a 2014 ZDNET article using the term in reference to the Android ecosystem, which was then referenced by Apple CEO Tim Cook (see quotations below).