disservice
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disservice (countable and uncountable, plural disservices)
- Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
- One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.
- 2014, Michele Kaschub, Janice Smith, Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
- Often schools of music focus solely on the canon of Western classical art music, but this is a disservice to music educators who will have to deal with students from many different backgrounds and preferences.
- 2018 July 5, Sam Greer, “Games want to offer us many roads but Kentucky Route Zero is the one road that matters”, in Eurogamer[1]:
- Treating narratives like something you can stretch out to give more value does a disservice to players and our engagement.
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service that results in harm
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Verb edit
disservice (third-person singular simple present disservices, present participle disservicing, simple past and past participle disserviced)
- To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
- 1975, Sarah Katharine Thomson, Learning resource centers in community colleges:
- One librarian said, "I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers."
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disserve — see disserve
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References edit
- “disservice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “disservice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.