disservices

plural of disservice
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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Recent Examples of disservices Learning only on the job is a disservices to their patients. Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Noun
  • Voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression are the injustices the VRA was designed to correct.
    Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • The focus of academics swung to class, race, and gender, to giving voice to the voiceless and documenting injustices.
    Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
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  • Artist Included argues that the same technology can be pointed backward, to right an industry’s old wrongs and return ownership and income to artists never built into the deal.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • So did two wrongs make a right?
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 16 June 2026

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“Disservices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservices. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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