dis·ad·van·ta·geous

(dĭs-ăd′vən-tā′jəs, dĭs′ăd-vən-)

adj.

Detrimental; unfavorable.

dis·ad′van·ta′geous·ly adv.

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Adv.

disadvantageously - in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"

badly

advantageously, well - in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; "The children were settled advantageously in Seattle"

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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.

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The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a changed aspect, as most men do when acquaintances made elsewhere see them for the first time in their own homes; some indeed showing like an actor of genial parts disadvantageously cast for the curmudgeon in a new piece.

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The longer she spoke, the more disadvantageously she challenged comparison with the absent woman, whose name she so obstinately and so audaciously persisted in assuming as her own.

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Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor's face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.

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Because of the enormous political history attached to her name, she'd rather keep her distance than influence Bautista's political career disadvantageously.

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disadvantageously were unjust the common law courts declared that

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