be at disadvantage
VERB
suffer
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But see something of the world I must, if only that I might not be at disadvantage in conversation afterward.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson