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UK
/nˈɛðəwˌɜːld/
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[ US /ˈnɛðɝˌwɝɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈnɛðɝˌwɝɫd/ ]
NOUN
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(religion) the world of the dead
No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth
How To Use netherworld In A Sentence
- The game's protagonist, Laharl, a self-absorbed demon who also happens to be prince to the throne of the netherworld, is as unlikely a ‘hero’ as one could expect.
- Instead of an honourable retirement, Louis was swallowed up by the sharks circling the boxing business, and gradually pulled into the netherworld of drugs, drink, violence and the mob.
- The Oklahoma bombing of 1995, which killed more than 160 people, emerged out of a netherworld of shadowy right-wing militias that grew up during the Eighties and early Nineties.
- In Mortal Coils, an interaction of oneiromancy and mediumism was embodied in multiple projections among slowly twisting ropes, as if something were dimly viewed while transpiring underwater or in a netherworld.
- As the dollar completes its inevitable descent into the netherworld of official shenanigans, you and I are left to try and figure out what we can do to protect what we have worked for all of our lives.
- If only the director trusted her audience, this could've been a sublime forage into the netherworld of the human psyche.
- But the alternative is to be responsible for a baby spirit wandering aimless and alone through the netherworld.
- His adoption of a soldier's guise gives the usually scrubbed detective a much grungier look, making him seem less an interloper than an authentic member of the poverty-choked netherworld he's infiltrating in his search for the gun.
- After the Rannians executed him, a Rannian wizard named Mordorh discovered that when Molantans die, their spirits go to a "netherworld," from whence they can be brought back. Plan 9 From The 1983 Comic-Con, or Are You Smarter Than A DC Writer? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
- The chipolatas were tiny, they could easily slip down between the grill, falling into the molten hot-bead-netherworld below.