inferior

In old Hollywood’s thinking, television was cinema’s inferior cousin.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Of course, we expect Starlink will be warning people that we’re going to go with an inferior product,” Bastian told Bloomberg in May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They contend the costs and energy demands of producing and distributing it make it inferior to batteries in almost every case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It's hard to challenge for a title in an inferior car, and the number of drivers who can do it is limited as a result.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

It is easy to assume that Wittgenstein’s point here is a relativist one: we say their knowledge is inferior to ours; but they say the same about us.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

"Instead in those years he sat at home watching his contemporaries and intellectual inferiors on Newsnight."

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

Caliban gives these fellows the idea of killing Prospero and taking over the island, but they quickly reveal themselves to be his moral inferiors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Jesus refused to treat women as inferiors despite living in a culture that treated them deplorably.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2018

Most of his partners, his immediate superiors and inferiors down in the capital, were Chicanos, and this had never bothered him.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols