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
That poor fellow, too, like many an humble flower, seen not disadvantageously in its native wilds, would look strangely out of place when transplanted and treated as an exotic.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
None of them express disappointment from Shirley, or on the whole compare her disadvantageously with Jane.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter
You see my face is a little broad—puffs will, I am afraid, make it look disadvantageously broad.
From The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by A. R. Waud
