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disadvantageously

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dis·ad·van·ta·geous  (ds-dvn-tjs, dsd-vn-)
adj.
Detrimental; unfavorable.
dis·advan·tageous·ly adv.
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Adv.1.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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