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underworld

modif.

criminal, concerned with organized crime, Mafialike, gangster, mob-ruled; see also illegal, wicked 1.

underworld Synonyms

underworld

Hell
Hades, Inferno, netherworld, otherworld; see hell 1.
Crime
gangland, gangdom, rackets, organized crime, the mob, the Syndicate, the Mafia, the Cosa Nostra, the Black Hand, criminals, riffraff.

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If true, the rebellion forming in the underworld needed to be dealt with swiftly and his soul found.
You can't rule the underworld if you have a soul.
She remembered what caused the dome of her underworld to crack.
"How bad is it in the underworld?" he asked.
Lost souls, shut out of the underworld, was the greatest nightmare for Death.

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