- a variation of nether world.
netherworld
Example Sentences
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Rather, he’s using a shoestring budget to concoct left-of-center sights that feel like a peek into a specific Los Angeles netherworld.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
In that legal netherworld, women weren’t just plaintiffs.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
They deployed atmospheric samples to conjure a foreboding netherworld, where Gibbons’s vocals could sound anxious, jazzy, witchy or utterly bereft.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Instead, it seemed content to inhabit a netherworld in between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
"He'll end up back in the netherworld to try all over again?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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