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单词 disadvantageously
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disadvantageouslyadv.

Brit. /ˌdɪsadv(ə)nˈteɪdʒəsli/, /ˌdɪsadvanˈteɪdʒəsli/, U.S. /ˌdɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəsli/
Forms: see disadvantageous adj. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: disadvantageous adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < disadvantageous adj. + -ly suffix2.In quot. 1611 after French †desadventageusement (1558 in Middle French; now désavantageusement).
In a disadvantageous manner; spec. (a) so as to place a person or thing at a disadvantage with regard to another or others; (b) to the disadvantage or discredit of the person or thing in question.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb]
unprofitably1395
unprofitablec1450
discommodiously1590
disadvantageously1611
disadvantageably1627
disserviceablya1670
malignly1828
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > disadvantageousness > [adverb]
discommodiously1590
disadvantageously1611
disadvantageably1627
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desadventageusement, disaduantagiously.
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 20 It hath fallen out to be heard disadvantagiously for some.
1657 G. Hutcheson Expos. John xi. 231 He will not suffer that Cajaphas should speak thereof too disadvantageously.
1751 in J. F. Hageman Hist. Princeton (1879) I. 59 The administration of his Excellency..has been disadvantageously represented to the ministry at home.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. ii. 49 The question was opened disadvantageously for the court.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia 47 That national indifference to social philosophy, in which we compare so disadvantageously with the first nations of the continent.
1896 Argosy Mar. 541/2 Any such action would in the end only reflect disadvantageously on himself.
1905 D. Heath Miniatures vi. 147 A very crude light blue.., which was much in vogue at the time, and which contrasts very disadvantageously with the softer blues of Cooper's period.
1981 Burlington Mag. July 435/3 King has only himself to blame for displaying his work so disadvantageously.
2007 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 40 546 With regard to scientific information, Inglis was not disadvantageously placed in his colonial outpost.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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