Inferior
Inferior adjective - Belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank.
Usage example: at one time, the upper crust liked to believe that inferior people were fit only to be servants
Nearby Word: inferiority
Prominent
Both words in one sentence
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Throw in the fact that his dad is a prominent lawyer and his mom a high-profile state senator and it's no wonder Louis feels inferior to them.
Source: Series / Even Stevens - As a writer of fiction he had a major influence, not just in the field of science-fiction, where one of his school students, Hans Dominik, became a prominent, but much inferior writer in the inter-war years.
Source: Creator / Kurd Laßwitz - Many of these critics (perhaps the most prominent was Newsweek critic David Ansen) misblame Steven Spielberg for making Jaws and especially George Lucas for making Star Wars, because this supposedly "ruined" the New Hollywood era, and replaced it with the "inferior" Blockbuster Age of Hollywood.
Source: Mis-blamed
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