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inferiority complex

noun as in low self-esteem

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Bobby had a major inferiority complex while he was married to Whitney—and was jealous of Kevin Costner and Denzel Washington.

“We have to get rid of our inferiority complex and free ourselves from the West,” he declared.

I suppose it is inferiority complex yet some of the best books in English are translations.

Such a move will acknowledge its rising power and mollify its inferiority complex.

If you lived out here long enough, Im afraid you would have a bad inferiority complex.

I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.

This superintendent must have a terrible inferiority complex, which that disfiguring scar certainly didn't help.

For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with regard to his own rational capacities?

It occupied all her thoughts; and in the process she soon developed what would now be dubbed a marked inferiority-complex.

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