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nether

[neth-er] / ˈnɛð ər /
NOUN
inferior
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Linda is a schoolteacher and artist who lives in the nether reaches of Brooklyn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

It turns out that as a kind of bacteria turns from existing peacefully in our mouths to causing colon cancer in our nether regions, it produces dimethyl sulfide.

From Salon • May 31, 2025

This time, though, he knows that camera is on, and is behaving in ways many will find even more distasteful: eating the raw nether parts of camels, cows and sheep, among other things.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

In going after the widest audience possible, “Bros” may have fallen into a marketplace nether world — too straight for gay audiences, and too gay for straight ones, some analysts posited.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022

“Or when we had to walk that tightrope over that nether whirlpool?”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles