noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
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Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it.
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The jargon of the criminal underworld is often referred to as argot.
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Police say it's the worst assault they've seen, and they're asking for information from the criminal underworld .
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Now they're asking for help from Swindon's criminal underworld .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's accused of having connections with Japan's criminal underworld .
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Owen has been active in the Los Vegas underworld for years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreet maker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.
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All of us have our underworld and nether world creatures with whom we carry on some inner conversation.
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Beneath its coils flows the water of the underworld .
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He was on his way to the underworld with Pirithous.
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Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.
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The money used to bribe Cronje was raised by Kishan Kumar, a failed Bollywood actor with underworld links, detectives allege.
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They were seen as the earthly links to the gods of the underworld .
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Virgil too is the only poet who gives clearly the geography of the underworld .