Synonym: Hades, Hel, Hell, Scheol, infernal region, netherworld. Similar words: underway, under way, underwear, underwrite, world, overwork, in other words, worldly. Meaning: n. 1. the criminal class 2. (religion) the world of the dead.
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1, She was a shady figure in the Dublin underworld.
2, He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld.
3, Beneath its coils flows the water of the underworld.
4, What happened next shows his underworld influence.
5, Now they're asking for help from Swindon's criminal underworld.
6, Wotan brought wisdom and Gnosis from the underworld and is, like Pluto, the lord of the dead.
7, Although he is now officially bankrupt, the underworld mastermind still has a multi-million-pound property empire.
8, There were other possibles - mostly underworld figures - but I discounted them as red herrings.
9, The jargon of the criminal underworld is often referred to as argot.
10, The court represented a contact point with the underworld and the players sometimes represented gods.
11, In the underworld she was stripped, humiliated, whipped and hung on a peg.
12, He was on his way to the underworld with Pirithous.
13, Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.
14, The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
15, It is a mob compacted of violent elements of the underworld.
16, I ignore him and dive down to my furniture underworld to etch the bizarre scene on my mind once more.
17, A malign child of the Cold War who had once been the uncrowned underworld king of Berlin.
18, Peter's little pet was clearly none the worse for its time in the underworld.
19, Most commentators assume that this lake is situated in some mythic underworld.
20, He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life's little comforts and luxuries.
21, After investigating Rizvi's affairs,(http://sentencedict.com/underworld.html) police claimed they had uncovered evidence that underworld money had financed his mercurial film career.
22, This book might be an unputdownable expose of London's underworld, but its moral message is highly dubious.
23, Yet for this small but growing group of deep-earth geophysicists, the uncharted underworld presented a rich store of possibilities.
24, Isuza was their last king, but he fell in love with a princess from the underworld.
25, Police say it's the worst assault they've seen, and they're asking for information from the criminal underworld.
26, Madden brought Jack the consensus sentiment from half a dozen underworld powerhouses: Go someplace else, Jack.
27, Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.
28, He was so near to death that even his eyes were like caves into the underworld.
29, On the bus back to Dallas, Dignan details his intricate plans for their underworld careers.
30, A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreet maker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.
More similar words: underway, under way, underwear, underwrite, world, overwork, in other words, worldly, world war, world bank, in the world, worldwide, all over the world, underground, under, maunder, undergo, plunder, founder, thunder, blunder, underlie, undergone, flounder, undercut, underpin, under age, come under, fall under, undersell.