What is "unfavourably"

Usage examples of "unfavourably".

They might contrast it unfavourably with Britain, but as compared with the other colonies, it ought to bear the palm.

Miss Phillips had her choice to remain in town or to go up to the station, and she decided on the former alternative, for she began to fear the station would be very dull, and would contrast unfavourably with the voyage, which had been lively and pleasant.

Some of these amendments were very unfavourably received by the dissenting interest in the commons, and an amendment was carried expunging the enactment that the names of dissenters intending to marry, should be read by the guardians of the poor at their weekly meetings.

Cavanagh was still pending, and that the pecuniary treaty was concluded on that petition having terminated unfavourably for these gentlemen.

Distress, from a severe winter and the high price of corn, abounded on every hand, while in various parts of the country local and temporary causes operated unfavourably to the labourer.

We were certainly most unfavourably impressed with his deportment all through the evening.

Before any further progress could be made in them, Pitt, on whose health and strength they had operated unfavourably, was laid in Westminster Abbey.

I felt poor in comparison, quite literally so, as if my own naturally careful habits compared unfavourably with his largesse.

Eden had reported the wishes of the Soviet Government to absorb the Baltic States, I had reacted unfavourably, as the telegrams already printed show.

Erasmus should have compared his style unfavourably with that of Badius, the printer from Brabant.

I may say that the sport is, in my opinion, a most barbarous one, and likely to operate unfavourably on the national morals.

He concealed rather than ostended this curious confirmatory circumstance, as he considered it would unfavourably affect his prospects in a new situation.