nether world
noun
the infernal regions; hell.
netherworld
-
a variation of
nether world.
Example Sentences
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The mission has taken him into the netherworld of the online job market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
By a certain point we seem to have wandered, alongside Sol, into a strange netherworld between life and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Her lips widened into a skeletal smile as she said to me, "You, Sikander, have broken the most sacred law of Kurnugi. The living are not permitted in the netherworld."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
