Meanings of more disadvantageous in English

Did any young man ever have to begin life under more disadvantageous circumstances?

Nothing is more disadvantageous to a community, its progress and peace, than unsettled land titles.

Patients in transanal tube group had more disadvantageous preoperative demographic characteristics than patients in non-transanal tube group.

The officers complained more loudly than the soldiers, because the comparison was proportionately more disadvantageous to them.

Incredible as it may sound, he was a yet more disadvantageous bargain for the Colony's £4000 a year.

An attack on the administration could be placed on no ground more disadvantageous than on its controversy with Mr. Genet.

At Elchingen the great height and steepness of the banks, rendering the fire almost ineffectual, were more disadvantageous than useful in the defense.

Background: Recent research indicates that currently active or recently detoxified substance abusers make more disadvantageous decisions on a simulated gambling task (SGT).