nowheresville
Americannoun
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a remote or isolated town or village.
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a job, position, rank, etc., completely lacking in status, recognition, or a chance for advancement.
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anything unrealistic, impractical, or useless.
Etymology
Origin of nowheresville
An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; nowhere + 's 1 + -ville ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The film had been sort of languishing in nowheresville for a while.
From Salon ● May 11, 2023
But between the hectic nature of the staging and the nowheresville abstraction of the set, I felt completely outside the Ahmanson production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
There will be intrigue at seeing how Magdalena Rybarikova, conqueror of Karolina Pliskova, fares against Croatia’s Petra Martic, whose injuries had left her in nowheresville until she put together a run at the French Open.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2017
Mr. Austin came to Pioneertown when it was truly a sleepy nowheresville.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2016
We were in deeply wooded nowheresville, and Uncle Darnell, our only hope of getting a ride, was long gone to work and then to school.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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