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unprofitably
adjective as in in the red
Example Sentences
“Like a lot of other businesses, you can run them as profitably as you want, or as unprofitably as you want,” Zook said.
Generally, chicken producers enter long-term contracts with meat companies that farmers say lock them into deals that fix their compensation at unprofitably low levels.
But — under pressure from pubs that feared this rule would limit patrons to unprofitably low numbers — in July Prime Minister Boris Johnson compressed that to a “one-meter-plus” separation.
“I have learned,” he wrote, “what happens to one’s energies and how they can be drained extravagantly, and unprofitably, by unwise selections that have been allowed to continue too long.”
But when World of Warcraft finally dips into unprofitably — which it has to, eventually — I don’t think there’s going to be another subscription MMO to replace it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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