disadvantageously
- r in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them
- I have been subjected to some unfriendly criticism, which, no matter how unjustified, might reflect itself disadvantageously upon Standard Fruit.
- Certainly Moore's role contrasts dramatically, and disadvantageously, with that of Lawrence O'Brien, the almost legendary congressional fix-it man for John Kennedy and Lyndon .