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Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

The want, too, of a separation of the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary functions, worked disadvantageously in practice.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

As for Frederick Travers, the same dissimilarity in character which made him at first compare Kate with his sister disadvantageously, now induced him to be struck and fascinated by her qualities.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James