inferiority
Example Sentences
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It’s an inferiority complex tempered by innovative breakthroughs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
His remarks have sparked widespread reactions on social media, with many users criticising the Kenyan leader for showcasing a "deep inferiority complex rooted in colonial conditioning".
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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