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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disserve.

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Examples

  • And one of the reasons I thought President Bush was disserved is a lot of his neocon advisers said that we were crazy when we told him in the transition that the biggest problem was bin Laden.

    Ideas and Consequences 2007

  • And one of the reasons I thought President Bush was disserved is a lot of his neocon advisers said that we were crazy when we told him in the transition that the biggest problem was bin Laden.

    Ideas and Consequences 2007

  • How that served--or, late in his career, may have disserved--him and his country is at the crux of this book.

    Exploring 'Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell' getAbstract 2010

  • How that served -- or, late in his career, may have disserved -- him and his country is at the crux of this book.

    Exploring 'Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell' getAbstract 2010

  • I don't think he'll get squat among them votes, but I think he can lull them so that enough will spend Election Day listening to inspirational radio at home, enough to despoil the Karl Rove math that so tragically disserved USA.

    Poll: Tight Race In Ohio 2009

  • But it's clear to me that the nation, and in particular Indiana, my home state, will be terribly disserved by this cap-and-trade policy on the verge of passage in the House.

    Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade 2009

  • It is inaccurate to view Bartlett as a "repudiated" President (unlike, say, Hoover in 1932, Carter in 1980 or Bush in 1992), but the West Wing, not for the first time, did their viewers an important service in pointing to the way that we are disserved by a system that allows a true lame-duck to make very important decisions that can well prove albatrosses around their successors necks.

    Balkinization 2006

  • My own view, set out at length in my book Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), is that we are seriously disserved by some remarkably unchanged aspects of the Constitution of 1787.

    Sanford Levinson: The Constitution as a Regulatory System: Inaugurating a New President 2008

  • But since this wasn't a public debate, everyone who participated in it is disserved.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • The american people in 08 will let the enablers know that they disserved them and are not qualified to hold the higest office in this country.

    Think Progress » Tester goes transparent. 2007

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