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
Unless there is more to the Leonard story indicating an impending punishment from the NBA, this is an absolute disservice to Clippers fans this year and in immediate years to come.
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Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Traditional downtowns have really suffered, and these large shopping malls, like The Veranda, Santana Row … Streets of Brentwood … have really done a disservice to downtown districts.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
By ignoring class as a factor in its characters’ lives, Bridgerton has often sanded away much of the underlying friction between them — and done the couples’ love stories a disservice in the process.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
Learning only on the job is a disservices to their patients.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Traditional downtowns have really suffered, and these large shopping malls, like The Veranda, Santana Row … Streets of Brentwood … have really done a disservice to downtown districts.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
By ignoring class as a factor in its characters’ lives, Bridgerton has often sanded away much of the underlying friction between them — and done the couples’ love stories a disservice in the process.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
Learning only on the job is a disservices to their patients.
—Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disservice
Noun
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What has always been so admirable is that Sony Classics has managed to do this both at home and abroad, centering not just domestic stories of injustice but international ones as well.—
Karen Kramer,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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What’s for certain is that Istook plans to keep telling stories, whether that’s fact-checking government officials, fighting misinformation or calling out an injustice.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Feb. 2026
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And not only that, but the lack of an adequate concept prevented the victims from fully understanding the wrong themselves.—
Timothy J. Pawl,
The Conversation,
23 Feb. 2026
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The arc of a wrongful-conviction story bends toward exoneration and release—a flawed but heartening correction of past wrongs.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Disservice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservice. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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