How to Use disadvantageous in a Sentence

disadvantageous

adjective

• They might have to resell the property at a disadvantageous time.
• The current system is disadvantageous to women.
• Minority groups find themselves in a disadvantageous position.
• If Trump makes rapid progress in his talks with Kim, that could put Abe in a very disadvantageous position.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• Saddled with the disadvantageous 10 post with an extremely short run to the first turn, Montalvo came out of the gate in a full out drive.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Trans women also tend to put on weight and that can be disadvantageous.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2022
• Variants have changed the virus in disadvantageous ways.
  — STAT, 20 Apr. 2021
• Each horse his regular rider, and none drew a disadvantageous post for the 1 1/8 mile $1 million stakes.
  — Tom Jicha, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Utah finds itself on both the advantageous side of that system and the disadvantageous.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021
• Cons: Has a tendency to run high and take on too much contact from a disadvantageous position.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
• It has been perceived as putting the U.S. in a disadvantageous strategic position.
  — Kelly Laco, Fox News, 9 June 2022
• Navarro feared that, thanks to the top two Trump economic officials, the China trade deal would have too many free-trade elements that could be disadvantageous to the United States.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2021
• Bigger bodies were better during the Ice Age, and then became disadvantageous as the climate warmed.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019
• The second is to force the West to back off supporting Ukraine at all, or to perhaps force the Ukrainians to the negotiating table in a disadvantageous position.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• One viable solution, treating men and women the same, turned out to disadvantageous to one and advantageous to the other.
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 2 Aug. 2017
• What's uniquely disadvantageous in this case is that, on the one hand, the reversal of Roe v. Wade may compel women who want to progress in their careers to overstate agentic qualities.
  — Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Given that there are nine others that don’t have this potentially disadvantageous trait, why not select one of them?
  — Julian Savulescu, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2014
• Our country always has a surplus of children, and many wind up raised in foster care or in disadvantageous conditions.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
• Sure, the Cowboys' defense has played from some disadvantageous positions this year due to offensive turnovers and special team woes.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
• And from my perspective, those who are able to see the advantage in a disadvantageous circumstance are far more likely to be successful.
  — Alexander Frech, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Most of the field of 20 will have been thinned off due to lack of sufficient talent or disadvantageous competitive circumstances.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• Some of the slowest animals, such as sloths and tortoises, have managed to use their seemingly disadvantageous traits to survive and even thrive.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The key is to not lock yourself into unfavorable cost structures now at peak prices that will be highly disadvantageous in future years.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Now he’s supposed to surrender this highly useful cash to buy Twitter shares on even more disadvantageous terms?
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 July 2022
• If Harbaugh placed it at the 1-yard-line, or 99 yards away from the end zone, Belichick would likely pick defense because the field position is so crummy being on offense is disadvantageous.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
• Kyiv was forced to accept a deeply disadvantageous ten-year gas transit deal with Moscow, among other concessions.
  — Suriya Jayanti, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
• The instant it is deemed disadvantageous, North Korea will not hesitate to violate it, renounce it, or simply walk away.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• Take advantage of disadvantageous events and find the silver lining.
  — Clayton Wood, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• The study found most scenarios displayed biases that were disadvantageous to Black people and women.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Most of these mutations end up being disadvantageous to the virus and therefore disappear through natural selection.
  — Paulo Verardi, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024