Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A harmful action, especially one undertaken unknowingly or with good intentions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Service resulting in harm rather than benefit; an ill turn, intentional or unintentional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Injury; mischief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ill
turn orinjury .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act intended to help that turns out badly
Etymologies
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Examples
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A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married.
Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community? Paul Golin 2010
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Maternal health seems to be a second class citizen; in doing so, a disservice is being done to that baby.
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A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married.
Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community? Paul Golin 2010
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A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married.
Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community? Paul Golin 2010
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A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married.
Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community? Paul Golin 2010
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Of equal disservice is the constant attacks on a much more viable candidate because she is a woman.
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Of equal disservice is the constant attacks on a much more viable candidate because she is a woman.
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I am posting this remark because I believe a great disservice is being done those reading these forums by the person presenting this incorrect information.
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I wonder if a disservice is being done, however inadvertantly, by not putting thoughts down on paper rather than on the screen.
Academic Blogging: Officially Un-Cool Richard Nokes 2005
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While I understand the temptation to reach for a shorthand to talk about New Amsterdam, generalizations like "alt-classical" really do the label a disservice as they mischaracterize the work of so many constituent artists and rob them of the creative idiosyncracies they've worked so hard to achieve.
NewMusicBox 2010
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