disservice

Examples

• All

• Clearly, we do our young people a great disservice by continuing to use such misleading and dangerous curricula.

  Academic text (2007)

• In the end, it does a disservice to the memory of our dear departed friend.

  Living (2022)

• We were doing a disservice to our countries and to our people.

• So I was doing him a disservice trying to get him to see the light.

  Chris Williamson

• I think that it was almost a disservice to the play.

• I did Sarah a great disservice when I married her.

  The End of the Affair (1999)

• By doing so, we are doing a disservice to our students as future workers and citizens.

  Academic text (2006)

• You would be doing the children of this community a great disservice.

  That's What I Am (2011)

• Applicants can do themselves a disservice when they send out resumes with more information than needed.

  Academic text (2012)

• Environments that isolate our elders from other age groups do a disservice to all of society.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

W

wrong

vsdisservice

103 2.3

An unfair act that harms or injures someone

emphasizes harm from attempted help rather than general unfairness

D

detriment

vsdisservice

39 6.3

Harm that makes someone or something worse

emphasizes harm that especially comes from an action meant to help

I

ill service

vsdisservice

8.3

An act of help that does harm rather than good

is the same idea but expressed as a different phrasing

I

ill turn

vsdisservice

8.1

An action meant to help that causes harm or trouble

is the same idea but presented with alternate wording

Antonyms

S

service

∞ 1.6

Work done to help other people, often as a job

B

to benefit

676 2.3

To help someone or be helped by something

How Harmful

harm

820 1.0

disservice

45 5.5

assistance

947 1.0

to benefit

676 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology