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inferiority

[in-feer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-] / ɪnˌfɪər iˈɔr ɪ ti, -ˈɒr- /
NOUN
deficiency
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In the first few weeks of the war we have seen how Iran has managed its tactical and materiel inferiority to some effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

And if her goofier choices were unanimously refuted as artistic inferiority, we’d never get the chance to see her bounce from “Babygirl” to “Holland” to playing an Italian forensic pathologist in “Scarpetta.”

From Salon • Mar. 22, 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

What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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