1 He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
2 He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
3 He laughed; Hareton darkened: I perceived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority.
4 The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.
5 He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
6 The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 7 It was bitter to acknowledge her inferiority even to herself, but the fact had been brought home to her that as a bread-winner she could never compete with professional ability.
8 In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
9 Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
10 There she felt her own inferiority very keenly.
11 He no longer dares to tease her by assuming an abysmal inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own.
12 Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 13 The situation of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English constitution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feudal tyranny, became now unusually precarious.
14 A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
15 While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.