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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In the 1980s, a would-be producer of The Cotton Club who made her fortune in the cocaine underworld ended up hiring hitmen to kill a rival on the project.
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Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
But if such factors tempered the public’s instinct to rush to the harshest judgments, the ordeal also revealed how the corporatization of sports betting had done little to snuff out a secretive underworld estimated to be responsible for $64 billion in illicit wagers annually.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
For Aronofsky, the city’s ethnic blend has no special claim on virtue; there seem to be as many criminal underworlds as there are demographic groups.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
This, however, is not Evangelista’s first dalliance with the criminal underworld.
—Peter White, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
But if such factors tempered the public’s instinct to rush to the harshest judgments, the ordeal also revealed how the corporatization of sports betting had done little to snuff out a secretive underworld estimated to be responsible for $64 billion in illicit wagers annually.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
For Aronofsky, the city’s ethnic blend has no special claim on virtue; there seem to be as many criminal underworlds as there are demographic groups.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
This, however, is not Evangelista’s first dalliance with the criminal underworld.
—Peter White, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underworld. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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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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