Synonyms for underworld
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uhn-der-wurld |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌn dərˌwɜrld |
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Définition of underworld
Origin :- c.1600, "the lower world, Hades," also "the earth," as distinguished from heaven. Cf. German unterwelt, Dutch onderwereld, Danish underverden. Meaning "lower level of society" is first recorded 1890; "criminals and organized crime collectively" is attested from 1900.
- noun criminal activity, element
- It was to him preposterous, for she was one of that underworld against which he was ruthlessly at war.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- She died of the sting, and was lost to him in the Underworld.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- He would also conduct through his underworld any one who had the leisure and inclination.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- It means what it meant to Orpheus when he followed Eurydice to the underworld.
- Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
- "Well, let us get busy with the underworld of Japan," Jack said.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts in the Philippines » by G. Harvey Ralphson
- It could not be Underworld jargon; it was too direct and at the same time too picturesque.
- Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
- Yours was the attitude of the drinking ne'er-do-wells of the underworld.
- Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
- The forest, he fancies, is the place of the dead, the underworld.
- Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
- Stories of the underworld are among the most difficult to write.
- Extract from : « When Winter Comes to Main Street » by Grant Martin Overton
- No wonder that it was both feared and hated by the citizens of the underworld of crime.
- Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen
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