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- noun informal A
disadvantage .
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Examples
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Nothing beats my disad of “Stopping teen smoking leads to worldwide famine.”
ObamaCare: A Road to Armageddon | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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But the fact that you also took a -10 deafness disad means that you also need to not hear the creaky board that everyone else does, nor the warning about the falling rock.
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From the disad-vantage point of the grown up world, things look a little different.
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President Nelson Mandela said that upon his assumption of office on 10 May 1994, he declared the upliftment of South Africa's disad - vantaged groups as one of the Government of National
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John Hicks noted that Congress in the 1980s had mandated the agency to work for change, preparing the disad - vantaged majority for leadership, without co-operating with the previous government.
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There may even be a reverse favoritism, or privilege, or restitution for former injustice, in giving more than usual attention to persons more than usually disad - vantaged.
EQUALITY R. R. PALMER 1968
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Obviously, without a more exact definition, the term is of limited value; it has advantages as well as disad - vantages.
NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968
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Though it must have made life easier in some ways, in others it would be a definite disad - vantage, as Port Lowell was fiercely democratic.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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If this decision is left to a future period and our courts of law, they can have only a partial view of the subject, and any gen - eral rule they may adopt may be attended with serious disad - vantages.
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In this disad - vantageous predicament, Mr. Ellicott was instructed by the
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