disadvantageous
adjective
characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
disadvantageously
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a word derived from
disadvantageous.
Example Sentences
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Certainly Moore's role contrasts dramatically, and disadvantageously, with that of Lawrence O'Brien, the almost legendary congressional fix-it man for John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods.
From Time Magazine Archive
These several points are touched on in this pamphlet in the chapters dealing with the individual States, but some general remarks are offered here in regard to the four points mentioned as operating disadvantageously.
From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
Nor in this respect does England to-day, as thirty years ago it did, compare disadvantageously with Leipsic, Paris, Berlin, Stuttgardt.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Fearing that she might influence the driver disadvantageously to our interests, I went to inform her that the delay was unavoidable.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
