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inferior

/ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/ noun C2
  1. A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another. · ,· As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.
  2. An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

Plural inferiors

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“Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 21 · B2
While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family?
Pride and Prejudice, p. 337 · B2
He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1
Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 187 · B2

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