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Disservice   /dɪsˈərvəs/   Listen
Disservice

noun
1.
An act intended to help that turns out badly.  Synonyms: ill service, ill turn.






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"Disservice" Quotes from Famous Books



... have Prophaned the Holy Sacrament of Baptism and Ministeriall Function, by presuming to Baptize their own children. Why His Majesty's Chaplain does not come to his Duty I know not, but am persuaded it is a Disservice and Dishonour to our Religion and Nation; and as I have heard, some have got their children Baptized by the Popish Priest, for there has been no Chaplain here for above these four years.'—Public Archives, Canada. Nova Scotia ...
— The Acadian Exiles - A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline • Arthur G. Doughty

... than any other person, and chiefly because she is of the West, and speaks in the accents of the West, she has antagonized progress in this land, not only religiously but also socially, and has done the greatest disservice to the people of India. In her eyes, Hindu philosophy and ritual, Hindu institutions and domestic life, have practically nothing to learn from the West, and need only to be known in order to be ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

... railways measurably successful in that Germany are the reasons which would make government ownership and operation in America a menace to our free institutions, a detriment to our racial characteristics and a grave economic disservice. ...
— Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation • Otto H. Kahn

... show that this kind of variability is independent of the conditions of life. I am inclined to suspect that we see, at least in some of these polymorphic genera, variations 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 ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Disservice" :   ill service, ill turn, service, injury



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