How to Use inferiority complex in a Sentence

inferiority complex

noun

• His shyness is the result of an inferiority complex.
• These meal kits gave me a serious inferiority complex about the readiness of my home for the fine dining world.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
• For most artists, singing next to the golden-throated Dunn would be asking to develop an inferiority complex — to his credit, Marez is up to the task.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2021
• For a place with a civic inferiority complex but a rising profile in some tangible ways, this is heady stuff.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 13 June 2018
• Dottie walks her home and tries to console her, but Kit is clearly riding an inferiority complex wave that cannot be stopped.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2021
• The Eagles advanced to two previous Super Bowls, but lost both to add what some in the city admit is something of an inferiority complex.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
• So this is an opportunity for the Clippers to make some more inroads in this town, and not be seen as a franchise with an inferiority complex.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 6 June 2021
• Forbes explains his feelings were reflective of a slight inferiority complex, the Tall Poppy Syndrome, for which Australians say they are known.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2019
• Plenty of Angelenos have either suffered from or enforced (or both) our city’s inferiority complex vis-a-vis New York.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• We Aztec specialists often get an inferiority complex with respect to the Maya.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2011
• This rapid decline, while common to so many former gold rush towns in Alaska, in Anchorage fed a rapidly growing inferiority complex.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2020
• Sold completely, and ready for our city to finally shed its inferiority complex.
  — John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• That defeat, Rodrigues wrote, exemplified a collective inferiority complex Brazil saw in itself, not just in soccer but in its relationship with the rest of the world.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• This plot gets rolled into a high-school trip, bundling Peter’s superhero inferiority complex with the more routine issues of his big crush on MJ and his efforts to keep his costumed identity secret from his classmates.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 June 2019
• For 88 years, Spain didn’t beat Italy in a competitive match and an inferiority complex naturally grew.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 6 July 2021
• Gray was an indifferent student who cheated on tests, and the new surroundings fed an inferiority complex.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The inferiority complex toward Germany is as pervasive today in France as the tremendous mistrust in how the government, embodied by Macron, handled the crisis.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2020
• Always responding to Barkley’s jabs just reinforces the contention of some that San Antonio has a major inferiority complex.
  — Jim Lefko, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
• Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the cold war, suffered no inferiority complex; at the time, few Russians regretted the withdrawal of Soviet troops from eastern and central Europe.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• But Hints believes that Estonia – like the other Baltic nations – suffers from an inferiority complex.
  — John Bleasdale, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
• But Evangelicals have an inferiority complex that Catholics do not have.
  — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• But Obama’s simple existence pulled down America’s pants and exposed its flaccid inferiority complex to the world.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 Mar. 2018
• This being Canada, a country of chronic apologies that sometimes suffers an inferiority complex when confronted by its swaggering neighbor to the south, the chest-thumping wasn’t exactly loud.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Softball has struggled with an inferiority complex for years.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• There's the rich alluvial soil of the Delta, appreciation for good catfish and barbecue, perhaps an inferiority complex or two, politics of the conservative nature, and the Liberty Bowl.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2022
• Alexander Skarsgård plays James Foster, a writer with an inferiority complex.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• In Ukrainka’s play, Oksana’s husband is servile, obligingly performing Ukrainian songs and dances for the czar’s entertainment, while the artist in Zabuzhko’s novel is wracked by an inferiority complex familiar to citizens of dominated nations.
  — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• His children represent the products of his inferiority complex.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 17 Oct. 2017
• One downside is that this shift, along with China’s explosive economic development, has flipped an inferiority complex into triumphalism.
  — Hugo Restall, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• No doubt Sontag would have recognized that the series’ Anglophile novelty (despite rampant contempt for Western patriarchy) also plays into the inferiority complex that still oppresses Americans.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024