as in injustices
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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Noun
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Focusing on social dynamics, injustices, and local issues in our neighborhoods or cities will be necessary.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Lee suffered other injustices, including the four traumatic deaths of her infant children.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Righting a couple of wrongs that everybody was talking about.—
D. Orlando Ledbetter,
AJC.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Was this award created, to some degree, to right Emmy wrongs?—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Disservices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservices. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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