John Tyler

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

American President

John W. Foster

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

American Diplomat

Phil Elverum

I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost mom? Not that I can do anything differently about it. But it's an inferior version of what we had planned, you know? This was not our top choice.

American Musician

Jane Campion

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

New Zealander Director

Graham Greene

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

British Novelist

Hank Aaron

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

American Baseball Player

Junot Diaz

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

American Writer

W. E. B. Du Bois

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

Rebbie Jackson

I would like to feel that if I can rear three kids in this world and keep them away from the inferior things that life has to offer, I feel that's truly success.

Cheo Hodari Coker

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

American Journalist

Often used with 'to' to show comparison, indicating something is less good.

Comparative Usage

Can imply a feeling of inadequacy or low self-esteem in social contexts.

Negative Feeling

Used to describe job positions in a company or organization.

Professional Hierarchy

Used in formal or structured settings like military or corporate environments.

Formal Reference

Relates specifically to the physical location in scientific and biological descriptions.

Scientific Context

Describes the location of body parts, with 'inferior' meaning lower.

Anatomical Position

Conveys a social hierarchy or status where someone is considered less important.

Status Implications

Indicates a lower standard or worth when discussing objects or work quality.

Quality Judgment

Used in education or professional settings to rank performance or contribution.

Academic Evaluation

 are better or worse than others, superior or inferior than others. We're either being racist, or we're being anti-racist. We're expressing notions that the racial groups are equals, despite any cultural or even ethnic differences. We're either supporting policies that are leading

The difference between...

 But he did have a sense that black people were inferior. And when we said to our parents and grandparents, "How would you feel if tomorrow morning you woke up black?" they said that is the dumbest thing you've ever said. Who have you ever known who woke up in the morning --

Why our IQ levels are...

 an important area of research, because some of the most serious complications are related to the heart and blood pressure. The expanding uterus may press on veins— causing fluid buildup in the legs and feet. If it presses on a large vein called the inferior vena cava,

The surprising effects...

 African Americans in a separate and generally inferior world from whites african-americans went to separate public schools aid in separate restaurants and even had to use separate public restrooms they had to sit in the back of buses and give up their seats to

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 to believe always seeing as represented as poor people I had come to believe that maybe yes maybe we are inferior because otherwise how do you explain that we're always in the begging situation that's what broke my heart but at the same time that you said that

Small-business solutions...

 gold jewelery or wrought iron gates, would be known communally as artisans, and their works considered minor or decorative arts, connoting an inferior status and solidifying the distinction between art and craft that still persists in the Western world.

Is there a difference...

 This system is based on ultra-conservative traditions and customs that deal with women as if they are inferior and they need a guardian to protect them, so they need to take permission from this guardian, whether verbal or written, all their lives.

A Saudi woman who dared...

 But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of." That is so right and so cool. And he said it such a long time ago.

Niall Ferguson: The 6...

 and he described them as a distinct group, inferior and beastly. Never mind that in that precolonial time some of the most sophisticated cultures in the world were in Africa. Why would this guy make this claim?

The lie that invented...

 plus machine and an inferior process. This convinced me that we would need better interfaces to help us coach our machines

Inferior

Not as good as someone else or something else.

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Of lower rank or position.

In biology, situated below another organ.

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A person that's less important or lower in rank.

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Lower in rank, status or quality.

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Comparative Usage

Negative Feeling

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