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disadvantageous, a.|dɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs|
Also 7–8 -ious.
[f. dis- 10 + advantageous, perh. after F. désavantageux (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Attended with or occasioning disadvantage; unfavourable, prejudicial.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 168 To enter into some disadvantageous promise. 1608T. Morton Pream. Encounter 70 Intolerably disaduantagious vnto the Romish part. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. vi. Harold (1847) 560/2 The English were in a streight disadvantageous place. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iii. ii, We are obliged to bring our hero on the stage in a much more disadvantageous manner than we could wish. 1861Emerson Soc. & Solit., Old Age Wks. (Bohn) III. 131 The creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §8. 684 To consent to a disadvantageous peace.
b. Tending to the disadvantage or discredit of the person or thing in question; unfavourable; derogatory, depreciative, disparaging. ? Obs.
1663Cowley Ode Restoration viii, Seen..in that ill disadvantageous Light, With which misfortune strives t'abuse our sight. 1709Swift T. Tub Apol., Fixes..a disadvantageous Character upon those who never deserved it. a1776Hume Ess. Princ. Govt. (R.), Whatever disadvantageous sentiments we may entertain of mankind. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. ii. 69 Herodian concurs with Dio in his disadvantageous representation of the civilisation..among the Caledonian clans. |