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    1. Consequently, I found myself regularly judged as being of inferior ability by automotive industry


    2. I am superior and he is inferior


    3. he did, he held Jehovah in a very inferior esteem


    4. church are identical! God's respective roles for men and women are based on their nature as God created them! It is not a question of one sex being either superior or inferior to the other


    5. This is unheard of; the Scathers believe females are inferior; they would never allow females on board a ship


    6. it certainly feels as though it has the makings of a long term relationship … though who am I to make that sort of judgment? But enough of that, Bunty was alone because she felt she was in some way inferior or different


    7. “If I accept them? They're so far above me that I feel inferior,” she muttered


    8. four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune


    9. Oatmeal, indeed, supplies the common people in Scotland with the greatest and the best part of their food, which is, in general, much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England


    10. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station

    11. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed


    12. 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


    13. In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit


    14. The same difference runs through all the inferior degrees of preferment in


    15. In the inferior employments, the sweets


    16. For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the


    17. inferior branches of country labour require much more skill and experience than the greater


    18. notwithstanding the mean circumstances of some of its inferior members


    19. Most of the students present were young, children of comparable age to Emily and Tetloan, but far inferior to the pair in their ability to control the Singularity


    20. Except in particular situations, the value of these is regulated by that of corn, in which the fertility of Britain is not much inferior to that of either of those two countries

    21. The food produced by a field of potatoes is not inferior in quantity to that produced by a field of rice, and much superior to what is produced by a field of wheat


    22. The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same ; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies


    23. But in countries of equal art and industry, the money price of the greater part of manufactures will be in proportion to the money price of labour; and in manufacturing art and industry, China and Indostan, though inferior, seem not to be much inferior to any part of Europe


    24. Eight-and-twenty shillings the quarter was, before the late years of scarcity, the ordinary contract price of English wheat, which in quality is inferior to the Sicilian, and generally sells for a lower price in the European market


    25. A salted hide is reckoned inferior to a fresh one, and sells for a lower price


    26. It may, too, be of some use to the public, in regulating the pecuniary reward of some of its inferior servants


    27. When the real price of butcher's meat has once got to its height (which, with regard to every sort, except perhaps that of hogs flesh, it seems to have done through a great part of England more than a century ago), any rise which can afterwards happen in that of any other sort of animal food, cannot much affect the circumstances of the inferior ranks of people


    28. That revenue, therefore, cannot consist in those metal pieces, of which the amount is so much inferior to its value, but in the power of purchasing, in the goods which can successively be bought with them as they circulate from hand to hand


    29. products and services will be inferior


    30. what could have been of good quality – is inferior

    31. In mercantile and manufacturing towns, where the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital, they are in general industrious, sober, and thriving; as in many English, and in most Dutch towns


    32. In those towns which are principally supported by the constant or occasional residence of a court, and in which the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the spending of revenue, they are in general idle, dissolute, and poor; as at Rome, Versailles, Compeigne, and Fontainbleau


    33. If you except Rouen and Bourdeaux, there is little trade or industry in any of the parliament towns of France; and the inferior ranks of people, being chiefly maintained by the expense of the members of the courts of justice, and of those who come to plead before them, are in general idle and poor


    34. In a city where a great revenue is spent, to employ with advantage a capital for any other purpose than for supplying the consumption of that city, is probably more difficult than in one in which the inferior ranks of people have no other maintenance but what they derive from the employment of such a


    35. In trade and industry, it is much inferior to Glasgow, of which the inhabitants are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital


    36. The houses, the furniture, the clothing of the rich, in a little time, become useful to the inferior and middling ranks of people


    37. In countries which have long been rich, you will frequently find the inferior ranks of people in possession both of houses and furniture perfectly good and entire, but of which neither the one could have been built, nor the other have been made for their use


    38. The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies, are generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America ; and the profits of a tobacco plantation, though inferior to those of sugar, are superior to those of corn, as has already been observed


    39. The station of a farmer, besides, is, from the nature of things, inferior to that of a proprietor


    40. Through the greater part of Europe, the yeomanry are regarded as an inferior rank of people, even to the better sort of tradesmen and mechanics, and in all parts of Europe to the great merchants and master manufacturers

    41. It can seldom happen, therefore, that a man of any considerable stock should quit the superior, in order to place himself in an inferior station


    42. In the republican governments of Holland, and of Berne in Switzerland, the farmers are said to be not inferior to those of England


    43. The militia of the cities seems, in those times, not to have been inferior to that of the country ; and as they could be more readily assembled upon any sudden occasion, they frequently had the advantage in their disputes with the neighbouring lords


    44. The authority of government still continued to be, as before, too weak in the head, and too strong in the inferior members; and the excessive strength of the inferior members was the cause of the weakness of the head


    45. cultivation of the far greater part much inferior to what it might be, The law of England, however, favours agriculture, not only indirectly, by the protection of commerce, but by several direct encouragements


    46. The cultivation and improvement of France, however, is, upon the whole, inferior to that of England


    47. And after you there will rise another kingdom, inferior to yours; and another kingdom – a third one, of copper – will rule over the whole earth


    48. Were the duties upon foreign wines, and the excises upon malt, beer, and ale, to be taken away all at once, it might, in the same manner, occasion in Great Britain a pretty general and temporary drunkenness among the middling and inferior ranks of people, which would probably be soon followed by a permanent and almost universal sobriety


    49. The boat-fishery; accordingly, which, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, was very considerable, and is said to have employed a number of seamen, not inferior to what the buss-fishery employs at present, is now gone almost entirely to decay


    50. The same annuity, and the same encouragements of all kinds, were given to the trade of those inferior chambers as to that of the great company














































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    Synonyms for "inferior"

    inferior subscript deficient substandard second-rate mediocre secondary subordinate lesser minor under

    "inferior" definitions

    one of lesser rank or station or quality


    a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character


    of or characteristic of low rank or importance


    of low or inferior quality


    written or printed below and to one side of another character


    having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit


    lower than a given reference point


    falling short of some prescribed norm