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
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Following Heath Ledger’s Joker performance in The Dark Knight was always going to be a difficult task, and this movie’s sound design (like Dunkirk’s) does Hardy a disservice by muffling so much of his dialogue as Bane through that damn mask.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
The fact that there are a bunch of other female characters dealing with other kinds of conflicts helps, but making Bix a perpetual victim, at least to this point in the series, is a disservice to her.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara
Anyone who hasn't read this book is doing themselves a grave disservice and must rectify that immediately.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
What bills itself as free market is doing markets a disservice with industrial policy meant to pick the energy winners of today and tomorrow.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
The fact that there are a bunch of other female characters dealing with other kinds of conflicts helps, but making Bix a perpetual victim, at least to this point in the series, is a disservice to her.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
Buy Now Select Roald Dahl Children's Books Edited for Less Offensive and More Inclusive Language
14 of 15
'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara
Anyone who hasn't read this book is doing themselves a grave disservice and must rectify that immediately.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
What bills itself as free market is doing markets a disservice with industrial policy meant to pick the energy winners of today and tomorrow.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disservice
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The Last Emperor won for Best Picture, and while that is absolutely a great movie, the fact that Moonstruck lost is one of life's great injustices.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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Eric Arthur Blair, who took the pen name George Orwell, was impelled to write by a keen awareness of injustice and a need to expose lies.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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The rights and wrongs of when and why supporters jeer their own team’s players are discussed here and Liverpool fans are certainly not alone in having done this.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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The country cannot turn the page on that dark, divisive, and racist era without righting this terrible wrong.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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“Disservice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservice. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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