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disadvanˈtageously, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a disadvantageous manner; with disadvantage; to the disadvantage of the person or thing in question; unfavourably, prejudicially.
1611Cotgr., Desadventageusement, disaduantagiously. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 20 It hath fallen out to be heard disadvantagiously for some. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 353 You have spoken disadvantageously of the Government before a Guardian. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II, (1847) II. ii. 49 The question was opened disadvantageously for the court. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 47 That national indifference to social philosophy, in which we compare so disadvantageously with the first nations of the continent. |