nowheresville

noun

no·wheres·ville ˈnō-ˌ(h)werz-ˌvil

-(h)wərz-

Synonyms of nowheresville next

: nowhere: such as

: a location lacking identifying or individualizing qualities

: a place or state denoting failure or relative obscurity

a career heading towards nowheresville

Examples of nowheresville in a Sentence

after years of languishing in nowheresville, she started to make it really big in the art world

Recent Examples on the Web And when Vladimir Putin was stuck in this nowheresville assignment in Dresden, there were several things that were happening. —

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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