Thesaurus / disadvantageous
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Kyiv was forced to accept a deeply disadvantageous ten-year gas transit deal with Moscow, among other concessions.
RUSSIA IS STILL WINNING THE ENERGY WARSURIYA JAYANTIAPRIL 29, 2022TIMESo a plausible working hypothesis is that centenarians carry rare, beneficial genetic variations rather than a lack of disadvantageous ones.
WHY IT’S STILL A SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY HOW SOME LIVE PAST 100—AND HOW TO CRACK ITRICHARD FARAGHERDECEMBER 5, 2021SINGULARITY HUB That party is now intertwined with the extent to which America is willing to tamp down on a deadly virus is, to put it mildly, disadvantageous.
THE INESCAPABLE OVERLAP OF PANDEMIC AND POLITICSPHILIP BUMPSEPTEMBER 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey thought it would involve the president personally in a way that would be politically disadvantageous.
HOW ROBERT F. KENNEDY SHAPED HIS BROTHER'S RESPONSE TO CIVIL RIGHTSPATRICIA SULLIVANAUGUST 11, 2021TIMEKimura posited that most of the variation between organisms is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
HOW NEUTRAL THEORY ALTERED IDEAS ABOUT BIODIVERSITYCHRISTIE WILCOXDECEMBER 8, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINETracking the chemical statistics of an ever-changing environment needs a simple solution to a complex problem—an overly specialized map may even be disadvantageous here.
OUR MIND-BOGGLING SENSE OF SMELL - ISSUE 91: THE AMAZING BRAINANN-SOPHIE BARWICHOCTOBER 14, 2020NAUTILUSThe suit should not be so full of possible tenaces as to make it disadvantageous to open it.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSCastalia lacked the Ancram gift of embellishing disadvantageous circumstances.
A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPEConstructional requirements determined as the only available position for this rudder a rather disadvantageous one.
LANGLEY MEMOIR ON MECHANICAL FLIGHT, PARTS I AND IIS. P. (SAMUEL PIERPONT) LANGLEY AND CHARLES M. (CHARLES MATTHEWS) MANLYMost of his English counsellors dissuaded him from accepting conditions so disadvantageous and dishonorable.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.I., PART E.DAVID HUMEWORDS RELATED TO DISADVANTAGEOUS
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusable
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- adverse
- antagonistic
- calamitous
- contrary
- damaging
- destructive
- disadvantageous
- discommodious
- hostile
- ill
- ill-advised
- improper
- inadvisable
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inimical
- inopportune
- late
- low
- malapropos
- negative
- objectionable
- ominous
- opposed
- poor
- regrettable
- tardy
- threatening
- troublesome
- unfit
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unsatisfactory
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuited
- untimely
- untoward
- wrong
- adverse
- antagonistic
- calamitous
- contrary
- damaging
- destructive
- disadvantageous
- discommodious
- hostile
- ill
- ill-advised
- improper
- inadvisable
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inimical
- inopportune
- late
- low
- malapropos
- negative
- objectionable
- ominous
- opposed
- poor
- regrettable
- tardy
- threatening
- troublesome
- unfit
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuited
- untimely
- untoward
- wrong
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