inferiority
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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
"There was no inferiority complex from Grimsby, far from it. If anything it was the other way around."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
And they remember a time in which the city’s messy urban forms and perceived cultural inferiority provided endless creative fuel, and liberation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
“Becoming Karl,” which depicts the rivalry between Mr. Lagerfeld and his peer, Yves Saint Laurent, focuses on Mr. Lagerfeld’s apparently enormous inferiority complex and the two men’s rivalry for the love of Jacques de Bascher.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Black Consciousness was less a movement than a philosophy and grew out of the idea that blacks must first liberate themselves from the sense of psychological inferiority bred by three centuries of white rule.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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