as in underworld
a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream a report on the demiworld of drug addiction

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Noun
  • Caught Stealing stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who is suddenly immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the late 1990s.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
  • There’s nothing wrong with a performer of Cruise's stature and charisma grappling with darkness and ambiguity in this way — in the past that resulted in one of his best, most misunderstood performances, as a doctor slipping down into a moral underworld in Eyes Wide Shut.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • She’s headed back into the abyss and that cycle of suffering and escape and return that’s moved and frustrated viewers across the years.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2025
  • Technology was seen as both salvation and abyss, a force capable of transcending human limits, but also one that could eclipse the human altogether.
    Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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“Demiworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demiworld. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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