inferiority
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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
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
"There was no inferiority complex from Grimsby, far from it. If anything it was the other way around."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
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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