as in injustice
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
you do a great disservice to the professionals at the day-care center when you refer to them as "babysitters"
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Recent Examples of disservice
But to paint them as one-dimensionally focused on defending would be a disservice to a side that finished as the third-highest scorers last season.
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Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
But bad-faith arguments that ignore Hamas’s sabotage and Israel’s attempts to mitigate the crisis do a disservice to truth and to the people of Gaza.
—Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
Dismantling this independent, bipartisan agency—as Trump seeks—is a dire disservice.
—Mandy Taheri
jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
To do it again but not do it properly would be a disservice to myself, my time.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
But bad-faith arguments that ignore Hamas’s sabotage and Israel’s attempts to mitigate the crisis do a disservice to truth and to the people of Gaza.
—Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
Dismantling this independent, bipartisan agency—as Trump seeks—is a dire disservice.
—Mandy Taheri
jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
To do it again but not do it properly would be a disservice to myself, my time.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disservice
Noun
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Vogel also advocated for the passage of legislation that eventually acknowledged the injustice of the exile and imprisonment and provided a payment of $20,000 to Japanese American camp survivors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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Any place where there’s injustice.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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The duo went on to work together in Highway to Heaven where Landon starred as a literal avenging angel, righting wrongs and looking out for people who couldn’t look out for themselves.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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With a benevolent billionaire in the governor’s office, a Democratic supermajority in the statehouse and a willing partner in City Hall, there has never been a better opportunity to right the past wrongs of racial discrimination.—
Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Disservice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservice. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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