inferiority
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It’s an inferiority complex tempered by innovative breakthroughs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Argentina might have taken the World Cup final to extra time - the fifth of the past six to go that far - but that could not mask their inferiority.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
To equate discomfort and/or brief awkwardness with artistic inferiority is a losing game for those who claim to love movies.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
I told him he had a big inferiority complex.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing inferiority
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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