Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inferior manner, position, or relation; on or in the direction of the lower part or the inferior surface: as, an insect marked inferiorly with black, or having a band dilated inferiorly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
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- adverb In an
inferior manner. - adverb In an inferior direction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My philosophy on inferiorly written old post is this – let them stand.
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Equally qualified loan applicants are treated differently; equally qualified prospective home buyers are directed toward different neighborhoods, and so forth Even marginally inferiorly qualified whites outearn marginally superiorly qualified blacks.
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Yes, the United States, the land of the self-satisfied, overfed, under taxed, and inferiorly educated; the land where nearly everyone strains as if trying to dislodge a mammoth bowel movement to refute each of those facts; the nation whose politicians still use an eighteenth century phrase like "American Exceptionalism" as if it were an edict from their private God, is the only place on Earth where there are no Americans.
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And now if you press the blood from the space above one of the valves, from H to O, (fig. 2,) and keep the point of a finger upon the vein inferiorly, you will see no influx of blood from above; the portion of the vein between the point of the finger and the valve O will be obliterated; yet will the vessel continue sufficiently distended above the valve (O, G).
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The ends of the cord are free, one extremely short and apparently having been broken loose at the knot, while the other one is of moderate length and extends inferiorly.
My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996
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The beveling is directed internally because the cranium was forced inferiorly against the spine.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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We regard the objects that polka-dot our daily lives as if they were rigid, totally predictable solids, frozen inferiorly in time and space.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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The beveling is directed internally because the cranium was forced inferiorly against the spine.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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The beveling is directed internally because the cranium was forced inferiorly against the spine.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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O, (fig. 2,) and keep the point of a finger upon the vein inferiorly, you will see no influx of blood from above; the portion of the vein between the point of the finger and the valve
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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