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of low quality, or of lower quality or rank than something else — sometimes used as a noun to refer to a person of lower rank or status
- She took it off, shook her head, explained with the kind smile for inferiors, "I'm afraid it won't do, though it's unusually nice for so small a town as this."Chapter 29 (93% in)
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- However charitable toward the Lower Classes she may have thought herself, Carol had been reared to assume that servants belong to a distinct and inferior species.Chapter 9 (88% in)
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