This was one of the rare occasions on which a major-suit game with a nine-card fit is markedly inferior to three no-trump.

Markedly inferior in firepower, much of Arnold's fleet was sunk or damaged by nightfall.

But he called it "markedly inferior" to performing a real dissection.

This people gave way in time to another, markedly inferior in the manufacture of pottery, but apparently superior as builders.

However, the quality is "unusable", and markedly inferior to decoding and re-encoding.

In his book, Professor Barrett calls the two "markedly inferior" and their work largely "anecdotal and trivial."

Not only did robbers get harder time, but the accommodations were markedly inferior.

Today's war planners, with extraordinarily advanced weaponry, are far from overcoming a markedly inferior enemy.

Markedly inferior, their product was exhausted within a month, an entire body gone to dust and sold on the street.

Their education and their housing were markedly inferior.