nowheresville
noun
no·wheres·ville
ˈnō-ˌ(h)werz-ˌvil 
-(h)wərz-
: nowhere: such as
a
: a location lacking identifying or individualizing qualities
b
: a place or state denoting failure or relative obscurity
a career heading towards nowheresville
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Examples of nowheresville in a Sentence
after years of languishing in nowheresville, she started to make it really big in the art world
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And when Vladimir Putin was stuck in this nowheresville assignment in Dresden, there were several things that were happening.
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CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
These lighting tip-offs are especially helpful because the play gets no help from the set, a stridently abstract nowheresville that inspires a fierce urge to escape.
—Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
His Martin is a nowhere man of great distinction, stuck in a nowheresville of a movie.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Mar. 2021
My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
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CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
These lighting tip-offs are especially helpful because the play gets no help from the set, a stridently abstract nowheresville that inspires a fierce urge to escape.
—Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
His Martin is a nowhere man of great distinction, stuck in a nowheresville of a movie.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Mar. 2021
My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
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“Nowheresville.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nowheresville. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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