Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner not favorable to success or to interest, profit, or reputation; with loss or inconvenience.
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- adverb In a
disadvantageous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
Etymologies
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Examples
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His partiality to the smoking room leads him to be rather unfair to the liner's other large gathering space, the Grand Salon, illustrated disadvantageously in the book with shots that do not convey either its elegance or its comfort.
When the Going Was Good Martin Rubin 2011
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A law suitable for Georgia might operate “most disadvantageously and cruelly” upon New York.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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A law suitable for Georgia might operate “most disadvantageously and cruelly” upon New York.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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A law suitable for Georgia might operate “most disadvantageously and cruelly” upon New York.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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On cooperation with Mexicans: why should it be believed that it is more than a false dilemma, to imply that our alternatives are only zero cooperation or one that is disadvantageously excessive, by the standard of loyalty to the good people here, and the resolve not to increase aggression in this jurisdiction?
Divisions on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In other words, the view is that it is a civil right to not be treated disadvantageously on account of one's race or sex.
Civil Rights Altman, Andrew 2007
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But money is not delivered via a helicopter and instead is injected into a system at particular points and this distorts the purchasing power of the first recipients advantageously and the last recipients disadvantageously.
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But money is not delivered via a helicopter and instead is injected into a system at particular points and this distorts the purchasing power of the first recipients advantageously and the last recipients disadvantageously.
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Zurich was congratulated on the possession of a Paragon of public virtue; and William Tell, in the character of benefactor to Switzerland, was compared disadvantageously with Mrs. Lecount.
No Name 2003
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These two ugly buildings are injurious to the interior appearance of the building, their heavy forms and structure being disadvantageously contrasted with the light and airy shape of the Makams.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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