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disadvantageously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English disadvantageous Middle English -ly English -ly English disadvantageously From disadvantageous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a disadvantageous manner.
   • 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. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
   • they are rather noxious to the secretive organs of the urine which, during the latter part of the time, operate still more disadvantageously on the whole organism, because they cut up, violently, the tender capillation, so needful to the economy of the blood, partly by the quick process of putrefaction, in which they throw the body, before dying away; 1859, Carl Baunscheidt, Baunscheidtismus, page 45:
   • {{quote-book|en|1917|Mary MacLane |I, Mary MacLane |passage=The look of the neat letterhead and the fibrous feel of the bond paper give one the idea that whoever went into a business venture with him would come out of it disadvantageously.

Forms

Antonyms

advantageously

Translations (6)

eo malavantaĝe (in a disadvantageous manner) · es desaventajadamente (in a disadvantageous manner) · hu hátrányosan (in a disadvantageous manner) · ca desavantatjosament (in a disadvantageous manner) · ru невы́годно (in a disadvantageous manner) · fi epäedullisesti (in a disadvantageous manner)