6 sentences with 'inferior'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inferior and other words derived from it.
• « The Romans believed that barbarian peoples such as the Germanic peoples were inferior to subject peoples such as the Celts, who could at least become useful subjects (and, later, citizens) of the Empire. »
• « Greek and Roman medical ideas, which were largely the basis of medieval understandings of human biology, held that women were essentially inferior versions of men: weaker, less intelligent and with an excess of moist 'humours' (the bodily fluids that were supposed to be the basis of health). »
• « Unfortunately, although a significant minority of male thinkers came to agree, most remained adamant that women were biologically and spiritually inferior, destined for their traditional roles and ill-served by advanced education. »
• « Women were not, according to the new theories, just inferior versions of men, they were biologically engineered to be the polar opposite: dumb, over-emotional and, above all, unable to think rationally. »
• « Non-nobles were constantly reminded of their inferior status through the legal privileges enjoyed by nobles and the array of visible symbols of their status. »