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UK
/ɪnfˌiəɹɪˈɒɹɪti/
]
[ US /ˌɪnfɪɹiˈɔɹɪˌti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnfɪɹiˈɔɹɪˌti/ ]
NOUN
- an inferior quality
- the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
- the state of being inferior
How To Use inferiority In A Sentence
- He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
- My creaseless Gap khakis and limp white shirt developed an inferiority complex. A Kettle of Vultures
- This phobia is the brightest flower of my inferiority complex. Times, Sunday Times
- Falling at the feet of Jesus in front of a crowd is a telling gesture signifying social inferiority.
- The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
- Despite their inferiority, York could feel aggrieved about Percy Park's third try which followed a blatantly forward pass.
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Mark Twain
- Nevertheless the imperfection inherent in its inferiority can be overcome as it returns towards its cause.
- He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
- Furthermore, it bore coincidental resonance with the nineteenth-century Euro-American pejorative digger, which referred to the supposed cultural inferiority of California's Native Americans, some of whom derived subsistence from the gathering of wild roots. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583