underworld
noun
un·der·world
ˈən-dər-ˌwərld 
Examples of underworld in a Sentence
a magazine article taking an insightful look at the underworld inhabited by street people
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Caught Stealing stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who is suddenly immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the late 1990s.
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
There’s nothing wrong with a performer of Cruise's stature and charisma grappling with darkness and ambiguity in this way — in the past that resulted in one of his best, most misunderstood performances, as a doctor slipping down into a moral underworld in Eyes Wide Shut.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 14 May 2025
Her determined search leads her into a decades-old mystery rooted in the Detroit underworld.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
This collaboration with the quicksilver informant unwillingly leads Pietro into a murky underworld, finding that in this case, law enforcers may not differ much from the law breakers.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
There’s nothing wrong with a performer of Cruise's stature and charisma grappling with darkness and ambiguity in this way — in the past that resulted in one of his best, most misunderstood performances, as a doctor slipping down into a moral underworld in Eyes Wide Shut.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 14 May 2025
Her determined search leads her into a decades-old mystery rooted in the Detroit underworld.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
This collaboration with the quicksilver informant unwillingly leads Pietro into a murky underworld, finding that in this case, law enforcers may not differ much from the law breakers.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for underworld
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underworld
noun
un·der·world
ˈən-dər-ˌwərld
1
: the place of the souls of the dead
2
: the side of the earth opposite to one
3
: the world of organized crime
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