inferiority complexin a sentence
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The opposite of an inferiority complex is a superiority complex.
inferiority complex = a general feeling of not being as good as others
- Children who cannot satisfy their parent's expectations may suffer from an inferiority complex.
- For some reason, somewhere in his life, he has gotten an inferiority complex.† (source)
- Peter has a huge inferiority complex.† (source)
- A barrier that has been completely spumed, snubbed, and confounded by Y.T., who dropped out of the sky into the middle of the camp like a Stealth fighter with an inferiority complex.† (source)
- He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.† (source)
- The people of Prague had an inferiority complex with respect to these other cities.† (source)
- She said he had an inferiority complex.† (source)
- Is it an inferiority complex or a superiority one, Henry?† (source)
- The rest of South Carolina has a keenly developed inferiority complex about Charleston, a complex that Charlestonians feel is richly deserved.† (source)
- She has a terrific inferiority complex.† (source)
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- They were wonderful times, those years between those wars, even for Poland, which is a poor country and suffer from, you know, an inferiority complex.† (source)
- Instead it gave me an inferiority complex that lasted all afternoon.† (source)
- That's where he gets his inferiority complex and his resentment.† (source)
- I told him he had a big inferiority complex.† (source)
- His name was Bob Robinson and he really had an inferiority complex.† (source)
- Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?† (source)
- I didn't want her to get a goddam inferiority complex.† (source)
- He was riddled with hatred for his superiors, and he'd got an inferiority complex ….† (source)
- But at that same meeting, Millie Bush, somebody's daughter, a mean, ugly little eight-year-old, was voted a pair of gold braces for her buck teeththis was 'medical need,' because the staff psychologist had said that the poor girl would get an inferiority complex if her teeth weren't straightened out.† (source)
- What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it.† (source)
- "Surely an inferiority complex covers that," added Thora Gray.† (source)
- I had been selfish and hypersensitive, a martyr to my own inferiority complex.† (source)
- "You think I maybe have an inferiority complex, do you think?" one of them asked me.† (source)
- I think we'll find the root of the matter in an intensified inferiority complex.† (source)
- Inferiority complex!† (source)
- All the years of talk about higher education she had heard from her mother, grandmother, and aunts not only made her anxious to get more education, but gave her an inferiority complex about her present lack of education.† (source)
- I happened to notice you had this inferiority complex that keeps you from feeling comfortable with people.† (source)
- If life won't do it for him it's not a substitute to get a disease, or a broken heart, or an inferiority complex, though it'd be nice to build out some broken side till it was better than the original structure.† (source)
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