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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disservice
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Stress management experts, however, are now suggesting that auger has been done a great disservice.
▪ Well, it does them a great disservice.
▪ Many perform a great disservice to their members by failing to represent their interests independently and fairly.
▪ In this case, the term does a great disservice to horses.
▪ But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony.
■ VERB
do
▪ When Mr Non-Productive Employee gets a raise, it does a disservice to the productive employee.
▪ Well, it does them a great disservice.
▪ The remedial programs we knew about did a disservice to their students by thinking of them as remedial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Am I really doing him a disservice if I leave it as one big C: drive?
▪ By confusing unrelated issues and taking information out of context, you do readers a great disservice.
▪ I would have done her a disservice had I immediately jumped in to help.
▪ The evidence from excellent companies strongly suggests that managers who feel this way are doing them selves a disservice.
▪ This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice.
▪ To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.
▪ Well, it does them a great disservice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disservice

Disservice \Dis*serv"ice\, n. [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F. desservice.] Injury; mischief.

We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators.
--Sir T. Browne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disservice

1590s; see dis- + service. Perhaps formed on analogy of French desservice (16c.).

Wiktionary
disservice

n. 1 ill office 2 detriment, loss 3 harm, damage 4 An ill turn or injury.

WordNet
disservice

n. an act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a disservice" [syn: ill service, ill turn] [ant: service]

Usage examples of "disservice".

The woman, Sadra Rosales, was only a conduit, though perhaps I do her a disservice by this dismissal.

I am inclined to suspect that we see in these polymorphic genera variations in points of structure which are of no service or disservice to the species, and which consequently have not been seized on and rendered definite by natural selection, as hereafter will be explained.

Rathmore Hellman was keenly aware of all disservices done him, but also habitually acknowledged good turns.

D were nice people, caring people, and when Leilani shared the details of her situation with them, she couldn't have done them a greater disservice if she had driven a dump truck through the front wall of their house and unloaded a few tons of fresh manure in their living room.

I don’t have to worry if I’ve done a disservice to minorities or expediently helped them endure the near future.

For all we know, these harmless emissions may be the first overtures of an entirely new species of being, or evidence of a previously unknown natural phenomenon, and we would do ourselves and our mission a grave disservice if we prematurely cut ourselves off from that evidence out of fear and distrust.