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  • But simultaneously, true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.   (source)
    inferiors = people of lower quality
  • Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation.   (source)
    inferior = less strong
  • Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher.   (source)
    inferior = lower status or quality
  • Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!   (source)
    inferior = of less importance
  • I bite my lip feeling inferior.†   (source)
  • But his uncle looked at him and exclaimed: "After fifty-six years in this country, I'm told that a Jew isn't a German citizen anymore, that I'm politically irrelevant and inferior.†   (source)
  • Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers.†   (source)
  • If you want to know what a mans like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.†   (source)
  • There was a Grub Street hack named O'Leary—an Irishman, I should add—who had the nerve, the confounded cheek to write of my first slim volume of poems, A Nosegay of Beauty Assembled for Gentlemen of Quality, that it was inferior doggerel of no worth whatsoever, and that the paper it was written on would have been better used as—no, I cannot say.†   (source)
  • I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.†   (source)
  • "I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit.†   (source)
  • An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.†   (source)
  • In this way, too, Ethel was Lydia's inferior, for Lydia had been great fun to terrorize, when she had two legs.†   (source)
  • The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious— because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Winnowing out the inferior, the unruly, the chaff.†   (source)
  • The seriously ill, the deranged, are another race, an inferior race.†   (source)
  • Fie described the diet of recycled botulism and salmonella, sent lists of the different multi-legged creatures he'd found in his room, moaned about the inferior quality of the mood-altering substances for sale in the dismal student mall.†   (source)
  • "Thinking all Silvers are evil is just as wrong as thinking all Reds are inferior," he says, his voice grave.†   (source)
  • But I hate to use inferior ingredients.†   (source)
  • …person must wait until a higher-ranking person sits down and starts eating, while the reverse does not hold true; one does not smoke in the presence of a social superior; when drinking with a social superior, the subordinate hides his glass and turns away from the superior;… in greeting a social superior (though not an inferior) a Korean must bow; a Korean must rise when an obvious social superior appears on the scene, and he cannot pass in front of an obvious social superior.†   (source)
  • He was a eugenicist: organ transplantation and life extension were ways to preserve what he saw as the superior white race, which he believed was being polluted by less intelligent and inferior stock, namely the poor, uneducated, and nonwhite.†   (source)
  • The IMAX I saw there wasn't even 3-D. Also they ask for extra money to get into the planetarium, which is ridiculous considering how inferior it is to Hayden."†   (source)
  • As if she were inferior, different.†   (source)
  • Saddam considered them to be an inferior people; during one political suppression, he ordered chemical weapons used and waged a despicable ethnic-cleansing campaign.†   (source)
  • This is not a new story: I was an inferior force.†   (source)
  • To be honest, the quality is no longer as good, now that the ingredients are inferior and Precious Auntie is no longer here to do the carvings.†   (source)
  • "He's the sharpest football guy I've ever known, so I just got so I felt kinda inferior to him," said Long.†   (source)
  • He might be able to improve on his design for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and I think it fair to assume that he would not construct one in any way inferior to that famous structure.†   (source)
  • You are meant to feel inferior and doomed not just be cause your inner organs may be trickling blood but because you don't know who to see about it, how to make contacts, how to make your way in the world.†   (source)
  • "If we accept, as Genesis tells us, that 'God created man in his own image,' then we also must accept what this implies—that mankind was not created inferior to God.†   (source)
  • In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness.†   (source)
  • His grade there indicates inferior work.†   (source)
  • It's impossible for me to know whether this is because of an inferior instrument or because Nathaniel was trained on bass rather than cello.†   (source)
  • He felt poor, ugly, inferior, and unworthy not only of her but of any other woman on the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • "Inferior copies," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • Although not a conscious thing on my part, I like to look back and think that my intellectual growth helped to erase the stereotypical idea of Blacks being intellectually inferior.†   (source)
  • Good tools, as a rule, don't wear out, and good secondhand tools are much better than inferior new ones.†   (source)
  • Ed Soames apologized to the members of the jury for the inferior nature of their accommodations and pointed out to them the urn of coffee in the anteroom, which they were welcome to serve themselves from—the coffee was hot—at any time during the day's recesses.†   (source)
  • We can moreover note that, according to Aquinas, it is only as nature-being that woman is inferior to man.†   (source)
  • Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school.†   (source)
  • She seemed perfectly at home among these women and treated me coolly, with a slight sneer, like a dim and inferior acquaintance.†   (source)
  • His experience raised the question of worth and values, of aggressive inferiority and aggressive arrogance.†   (source)
  • The Haitians tried to use the oil for other purposes, such as cooking, and concluded that the gift was of inferior quality.†   (source)
  • Akin to this first trait is the second, an ever-present, poorly controlled rage-easily triggered by any feeling of being tricked, slighted, or labeled inferior by others.†   (source)
  • He had despised Eric's manhood by treating him as a woman, by telling him how inferior he was to a woman, by treating him as nothing more than a hideous sexual deformity.†   (source)
  • White supremacy implies black inferiority.†   (source)
  • "Or the Commandant will think I'm supplying her with inferior goods."†   (source)
  • He has also stated that his wife's ample bosom at times gives him a feeling of inferiority.†   (source)
  • It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind.†   (source)
  • Given the location and timing of this change—dense urban areas where Afro-American activism was gathering strength—the most likely cause of the explosion in distinctively black names was the Black Power movement, which sought to accentuate African culture and fight claims of black inferiority.†   (source)
  • Frear, like many of the wealthier and more educated of the time, viewed the less fortunate as inferior.†   (source)
  • The message came through loud and clear: Women are inferior.†   (source)
  • Clarkson and Wilberforce seemed to be fighting a hopeless campaign: Britain had a huge economic stake in the continuation of the slave trade, and the suffering was endured by distant peoples whom many Britons considered inferior savages.†   (source)
  • An inferior Romeo for the fallen Juliet.†   (source)
  • That could leave a kid such as Lorenzo with a permanent sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Too soft for the unenhanced to hear, but the auditory bots transmit the information to the hub, which relays it to the inferior colliculus, the hearing center of my brain.†   (source)
  • She does—she feels inferior to them —and to me.†   (source)
  • His family, one of the most prominent in Baltimore, had made their fortune in banking and were immensely wealthy and clannish, the type of family that sat on the boards of various corporations and instituted policies at country clubs that served to exclude those they regarded as inferior.†   (source)
  • "Well, once you've dried off a bit, you'll have to leave," said Charles, covertly hiding the good bottle of brandy behind the inferior brands.†   (source)
  • Affection and the expression of emotions struck him as signs of inferiority.†   (source)
  • It isn't that I think the enlisted men are dirty, common and inferior.†   (source)
  • Would they look at my calligraphy and realize just how inferior I was?†   (source)
  • It is as though I were inferior/ 0.†   (source)
  • "What a thing to say," he rants, talking to the wall, "like I'm some kind of inferior human being!"†   (source)
  • 1 Should a human come across something written in Elysian code, it was thought, its inferior intelligence would find the elegant script a jumble, and the secrets of all of Elysia would fail to be revealed.†   (source)
  • A year later, he managed to find a more advantageous but much inferior position at a clinic on the outskirts of Prague.†   (source)
  • In some people, the inferior vena cava barely indents the back of the liver.†   (source)
  • She was staring at me with the pure, cold hatred of someone who's been defeated by something she thought was inferior.†   (source)
  • Sutures—stitches—get sewn into the aorta, the superior vena cava, and the inferior vena cava.†   (source)
  • Still, every week, one column is inferior to all the others, sometimes spectacularly so.†   (source)
  • Even inferior cuts of horse meat brought good prices.†   (source)
  • It's only too much if they're inferior clothes."†   (source)
  • But you cannot and you will not order us around as if we were inferior beings in your august presence.†   (source)
  • For most of my life I had felt rejected and inferior, so now as an adult, how could I abandon my own child?†   (source)
  • How dare she try to make me feel inferior to her own pure, clear beauty?†   (source)
  • Inferior.†   (source)
  • Whether he was wise or not in trying to forestall both the alarm and the sense of inferiority that he saw lying in wait for us when we should become better aware of ourselves and our difference, I cannot say.†   (source)
  • Until that day, Bram had no interest or use for such sentiments, but nevertheless it galled him that this associate—this inferior—should possess something that he did not.†   (source)
  • Only Lady Barbrey, whom you would turn into a pair of boots …. inferior boots.†   (source)
  • Begging my inferiors for funds and endowments?†   (source)
  • Our question implies still another: Do you consider the American you speak superior or inferior to the speech of your fellow Americans from other regions, social classes, or ethnic groups?†   (source)
  • It has been left to the English to enforce a system of laws on inferiors like the Irish.†   (source)
  • As a way to arrive at the truth, exactitude and methodology are, in the end, far inferior to vision and apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Inferior Federal Courts†   (source)
  • "Blends are inferior," Misty continued, still straight-faced.†   (source)
  • It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Yousef and Hamza seemed mildly impressed, but also appeared satisfied that Alan was an inferior shot.†   (source)
  • Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.†   (source)
  • They are individually inferior.†   (source)
  • When caribou were abundant this testing was accomplished by rushing each band and putting it to flight for just long enough to expose the presence, or absence, of a sick, wounded or otherwise inferior beast.†   (source)
  • His day-to-day living is a reminder of his inferior status.†   (source)
  • The objcctions and policies of these groups varied enormously: some took the religious viewpoint, while others were merely expressing a sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact.†   (source)
  • When I heard, for example, that Negroes were an inferior race, I thought the authority was misinformed.†   (source)
  • Carl isn't inferior!†   (source)
  • Don't you make him feel inferior every day, and don't you make it even harder on him with your kindness and patience?†   (source)
  • Why do you, who might be the freest spirit of us all, demean yourself by serving your inferiors?†   (source)
  • True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.†   (source)
  • Children being taught every day that God meant them to be inferior.†   (source)
  • I told you I can be jealous only of my inferiors, not of my equals.†   (source)
  • Over and over again, through lack of proper facilities, we have been mouse-trapped by D'Courtney into bidding for inferior people while D'Courtney has quietly appropriated the best.†   (source)
  • Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?   (source)
  • What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.   (source)
    inferiority = lower quality
  • What I am asking is, were these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply because they were rich and you were poor?   (source)
    inferior = a person of lower quality or status
  • His first feeling was relief, but as he watched the strong slender body moving in front of him, with the scarlet sash that was just tight enough to bring out the curve of her hips, the sense of his own inferiority was heavy upon him.   (source)
    inferiority = lower quality
  • His school performance has been inferior.†   (source)
  • He had an inferior master, one whose reason was clouded by emotion.†   (source)
  • Walking up a long drive puts you at a disadvantage; it automatically makes you feel inferior.†   (source)
  • There is racism; she would be treated as inferior.†   (source)
  • Even Mexicans look down on Central Americans, whom many view as inferior.†   (source)
  • To the Tutsi supremacists, God and nature had chosen them to rule the inferior race of Hutus.†   (source)
  • He claimed more battles were lost from fatigue than from inferior fire power.†   (source)
  • She emphasizes our, as if there are other, inferior, bareheaded churches.†   (source)
  • He might have been watching a mildly inferior play.†   (source)
  • Tutsis had degenerated through long contact with the inferior race of native blacks, the Hutus.†   (source)
  • But he also had a tear to the inferior vena cava where it goes behind the liver.†   (source)
  • I will now show that the power of creating inferior courts is proper.'†   (source)
  • You insist on keeping secrets because the Zhongguo ren are inferior; they cannot comprehend.†   (source)
  • General Durrell, it is said, never quite forgave either for their bad judgment or inferior taste.†   (source)
  • They were all technologically inferior, but ….†   (source)
  • He forgot about all his inferiors who'd rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors.†   (source)
  • The small pale yellow grapes native to these regions produced a notably inferior vintage.†   (source)
  • No matter how high a black man advanced, he was still considered inferior to the lowest white man.†   (source)
  • I presume that what they mean to say is this: Inferior federal courts will be located in the States.†   (source)
  • I saw the inferior vena cava distend, like a garden hose filling with water.†   (source)
  • And he will be exposed to their resentments on an equal, even an inferior, footing?†   (source)
  • I couldn't stop it unless I clamped the inferior vena cava, which would kill him.†   (source)
  • The Constitution gives Congress the power to create inferior federal courts.†   (source)
  • They are only described as "inferior to the Supreme Court."†   (source)
  • Could an appeal be made from the State courts to an inferior federal court?†   (source)
  • Cases that involve a State shouldn't be turned over to an inferior tribunal.†   (source)
  • The rest is given to the inferior tribunals.†   (source)
  • All other federal cases will be heard by the inferior courts.†   (source)
  • Number 81: Authorities of Supreme, Inferior Federal Courts†   (source)
  • And these inferior federal courts should use the same mode of trial as the States in which they sit.†   (source)
  • But the Constitution says: to constitute "tribunals INFERIOR TO THE SUPREME COURT."†   (source)
  • It doesn't confine its operation to the inferior federal courts.†   (source)
  • The power of creating inferior courts should be in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • And numerous inferior vassals occupied and cultivated that land.†   (source)
  • The national government can authorize inferior courts in each State or district.†   (source)
  • White supremacy implies black inferiority.†   (source)
  • This is one of the sources of his chafing at being considered inferior.†   (source)
  • I have looked diligently for all aspects of "inferiority" among them and I cannot find them.†   (source)
  • If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the one thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.†   (source)
  • I learned about veneers and gilding, what a mortise and tenon was, the difference between ebonized wood and true ebony, between Newport and Connecticut and Philadelphia crest rails, how the blocky design and close-cropped top of one Chippendale bureau rendered it inferior to another bracket-foot of the same vintage with its fluted quarter columns and what he liked to call the "exalted" proportions of the drawer ratio.†   (source)
  • I strode blindly out into the hall, not to my room, because that was where they would come to get me, but to the alcove, greatly inferior to the alcove at C apian, but an alcove, nevertheless, in a quiet corner of the hall, where Joan and Loubelle and DeeDee and Mrs. Savage would not come.†   (source)
  • I know that Hester especially looked forward to my visits because she suffered from being the constant inferior to her brothers—not that they abused her, or even teased her.†   (source)
  • From these hypotheses he deduces a series of theorems among which it's impossible to find any contradiction, and he constructs a geometry whose faultless logic is inferior in nothing to that of the Euclidian geometry.†   (source)
  • "I especially liked the part where the Negroes, bless their hearts, couldn't help being inferior to the white race because their skulls are thicker and their brain-pans shallower—whatever that means—so we must all be very kind to them and not let them do anything to hurt themselves and keep them in their places.†   (source)
  • The assertion of racial beauty was not a reaction to the self-mocking, humorous critique of cultural/racial foibles common in all groups, but against the damaging internalization of assumptions of immutable inferiority originating in an outside gaze.†   (source)
  • And the more grossly they expressed themselves about women's inferiority, the stronger became the negation.†   (source)
  • …more than hospitals do because of their air of negative expectancy and because of the occasional patient who leaves with good news, shaking the doctor's antiseptic hand and laughing loudly, laughing at everything the doctor says, booming with laughter, with crude power, making a point of ignoring the other patients as he walks past the waiting room still laughing provocatively-- he is already clear of them, no longer associated with their weekly gloom, their anxious inferior dying.†   (source)
  • They had seen each other on various occasions, but they had never before been face to face as they were now, and once again Florentino Ariza experienced the nausea of feeling himself inferior.†   (source)
  • He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it's all so unsystematic.†   (source)
  • We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought that we country children would make our classmates feel inferior—and we did.†   (source)
  • He called to his attention the disheartening inferiority of the performances that could be heard here now, compared with the splendid ones of the previous century.†   (source)
  • We can also observe something else: The many men in Hegel's time who could reel off gross broadsides like that on on the inferiority of women hastened the development of feminism.†   (source)
  • He slings his rifle and carries the big battered transmitter—its leads, its inferior microphone—through the flowers to the Opel, its engine running, Neumann Two and Volkheimer already in the cab.†   (source)
  • Unlike Hobie— who assumed, incorrectly, that anyone who walked into his store was as fascinated by furniture as he was, who was extremely matter-of-fact in pointing out the flaws and virtues of a piece—I had discovered I possessed the opposite knack: of obfuscation and mystery, the ability to talk about inferior articles in ways that made people want them.†   (source)
  • I think he must have been many years older than she, but if not, he still had the sluggish inferiority of old men married to younger women.†   (source)
  • 'Planting' was a racket whereby fakes or inferior antiques were placed in private homes —often homes belonging to the elderly—to be sold to vultures clustering at the deathbed: bottom feeders so eager to rip off the old lady in the oxygen tent that they didn't realize they were being ripped off themselves.†   (source)
  • The rapes are part of the general denigration and humiliation of Central Americans in Mexico, where the migrants are seen as inferior because they come from less developed countries, says Olivia Ruiz, a cultural anthropologist at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.†   (source)
  • There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees.†   (source)
  • You strip him of dignity, manhood, womanhood, you destroy him, you expose him publicly as an inferior being.†   (source)
  • After the Erasers had taken the inferior Max away from the motel, I quickly lay down in her spot and pulled the blanket over me.†   (source)
  • If the local horses were clearly inferior to his, he'd talk their owners into betting all of their cash.†   (source)
  • For the last twenty years, Coke has gone head-to-head with Pepsi with a product that taste tests say is inferior, and Coke is still the number one soft drink in the world.†   (source)
  • Had it been done by an inferior hand, as Josiah Quincy observed, it might have been painful to look at.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit shipped all over the Northeast, never stayed more than two or three weeks in one place, averaged one race every five days, and racked up losses to inferior horses practically every time out.†   (source)
  • Often in my inferior columns, I am trying to pull off something I've never done before, something I'm not even sure can be done.†   (source)
  • And you're not playing melodramatic games, secrecy for secrecy's sake-an old dodge for inferior doctors, incidentally-but you're really concerned, aren't you?†   (source)
  • William Raspberry of the Washington Post approvingly quoted one of the plaintiff lawyers: "When a 5-year-old has his language system treated as inferior from his first day of school, the resulting psychological damage is inevitable.†   (source)
  • He associated the act with the humiliation and the debasement of one male by another, the inferior male of less importance than the crumpled, cast-off handkerchief; but he did not feel this way toward Eric; and therefore he did not know what he felt.†   (source)
  • Mixed herds of does with fawns were much more interesting to the wolves, for the percentage of injured, malformed or inferior individuals is naturally higher among the fawns, who have not yet been subjected to any prolonged period of rigorous natural selection.†   (source)
  • "Oh, General," Lee admonished Washington in a letter, "why would you be over-persuaded by men of inferior judgment to your own ?"†   (source)
  • I would not want to interfere with her local"—and by this she meant inferior—"business in any way."†   (source)
  • He cannot tolerate feelings of frustration as a more normal person can, and he is poorly able to rid himself of those feelings except through antisocial activity… His self-esteem is very low, and he secretly feels inferior to others and sexually inadequate.†   (source)
  • Continuing, Jefferson offered as "a suspicion only" that blacks were inferior to whites in both mind and body.†   (source)
  • When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects.†   (source)
  • I skipped over the part about how her heart would be removed: the inferior and superior vena cava divided, then the aorta.†   (source)
  • Who would shield him against animosity and deceit, against people with ambition and the embittered snobbery of the big shot's wife, against the squalid, corrupting indignities of the profit motive and the friendly neighborhood butcher with inferior meat?†   (source)
  • The moment he violated that clause of the contract, his other mistresses would assume inferior status and become ripe for insurrection.†   (source)
  • Eragon might be inferior to the elves, but he refused to give them the satisfaction of fulfilling their low expectations of him.†   (source)
  • It literally means "apartness" and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries.†   (source)
  • He had known his sort in King's Landing—fawning to his superiors, harsh to his inferiors, as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half.†   (source)
  • Will, I don't know if I've ever told you this story, but about ten years ago I read in the paper that bowlers have the lowest IQ's of any athletes and were generally from a socially inferior class.†   (source)
  • Among them was to lay aside an immediate law career-better none than with an inferior firm, or, God forbid, a private practice with the sort of clients he was bound to attract, namely, those who could not afford established attorneys.†   (source)
  • In his study of the history of immigration and language, The English-Only Question, Dennis Baron wrote: Settled Americans have been reluctant to accept newcomers, regarding them as socially, economically, and racially inferior, more insistent on special concessions like bilingual ballots, and on government handouts, and less willing to assimilate than earlier generations had been.†   (source)
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