Chief
Chief adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: our chief priority this year will be cutting the budget
Nearby Word: chiefly
Inferior
Inferior noun - One who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another.
Usage example: she is nice to her inferiors as well as to her superiors
Nearby Word: inferiority
How words are described
| worst | worst chief | worst inferior |
Both words in one sentence
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Rob Lucci is the Dragon-in-Chief to Spandam, since despite being leader of the CP 9 Spandam is vastly inferior to Lucci (and the rest of his team), and it is Lucci that Luffy ultimately has to defeat to secure a proper victory.
Source: Dragon-in-Chief -
Additionally, early scripts indicate "lizarddom" and racial superiority as chief motivations for Koopa; he feels that mammals are inferior and need to be kept in check while eating plants (herbivores) is a sign of a race's decline.
Source: Putting on the Reich -
Agan is due to inherit the title of Chief from his mom, who gained the title after her husband was killed, and no one comments on it or suggests he needs to hurry up and claim his "proper" role or that she's doing an inferior job; their leader is simply anyone who has passed the Rite of Ascension.
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