disadvantage
/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To place at a disadvantage. · They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
He/she/it disadvantages · Past disadvantaged · Past participle disadvantaged · -ing form disadvantaging
Verb forms
- Base form
- disadvantage
- He/she/it
- disadvantages
- Past
- disadvantaged
- Past participle
- disadvantaged
- -ing form
- disadvantaging
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“It may, perhaps, be pleasant,” replied Charlotte, “to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.
Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire--and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too--for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.”
“If you were aware,” said Elizabeth, “of the very great disadvantage to us all, which must arise from the public notice of Lydia’s unguarded and imprudent manner, nay, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair.”
From the further disadvantage of Lydia’s society she was of course carefully kept; and though Mrs.
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