How To Use Disservice In A Sentence

“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married. Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community?
We do our young people a great disservice by not teaching languages in a more rigorous, consistent and inspired fashion. Times, Sunday Times
But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony.
This is a disservice to one of the 20th century's most powerful writers and thinkers and a disservice to ourselves. Times, Sunday Times

This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive). Times, Sunday Times
That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
Stromboli Smith OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
Indeed, the final scoreline perhaps flattered Leigh, or at least did a disservice to the effort of the York team.
This is a disservice to consumers but also to the new alternative energy. Times, Sunday Times
Plus it's been cursed with the continuous reference to a movie that did it a terrible disservice. Times, Sunday Times
It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. The Life of the Lives
If the acquisition of bad, that is, disserviceable habits, is disastrous to the individual, it is in some respects even worse in the group. Human Traits and their Social Significance
Slater actually does viewers a disservice by being less than embarrassing here.
And to treat it as such is doing women in the workplace a huge disservice. The Sun
When we are not careful enough they will do disservice to us.
No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war. Heroes or Villains?
I really did myself a disservice by not taking my mother's old advice and counting to ten before I unload my fury on someone.
Here many of his latter-day adherents do him a disservice, using unsubtle approximations of his logic to produce crude statements about power and language.
Curing ulcerative colitis but leaving the patient incontinent of feces does the patient a great disservice.
Plus it's been cursed with the continuous reference to a movie that did it a terrible disservice. Times, Sunday Times
Here was a chance to look candidly at the way multi-culturalism in Bradford has done a disservice to race relations.
Although Gilbert and George are promoting a reassuringly pedestrian and unartistic view of art, Higgs and Noble nonetheless do them something of a disservice here.
We do ourselves a great disservice when we condemn the healthy desires behind temptation. Christianity Today
Those who learn but do not thinking is doing a disservice to learning and themselves–just as bad as thinking without learning. Dr T.P.Chia
Yur story is a disservice to the public and seems quite out of character with normal Register content.
He said the protesters were doing a disservice to the nation.
I feel like the media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa. Times, Sunday Times
Appeasement does not work and those who endorse it are doing an enormous disservice to their people.
As much as I like the college world, it has done a huge disservice to many people because it has allowed them to remain immature and irresponsible for longer than people of my parents 'or grandparents' generation. Texas Lawmaker Proposes Guns On Campus
Stress management experts, however, are now suggesting that auger has been done a great disservice.
That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
It is a disservice to students and to themselves to be restricting the flow of information to students.
All of these great pretenders do a disservice to genuine sufferers. The Sun
We Americans do ourselves a disservice if we think we can work miracles overnight.
But in general, I think we do ourselves a disservice as skeptics if we try to maintain that the only ‘pure’ skeptic is an atheist skeptic.
Ms Donovan said Mr Cusack's remarks had done a disservice to those who had chosen to remain with the newspaper and that they could not go unchallenged.
Is costco doing a disservice by offering a good selection of wines at good prices? NY: wine in grocery stores - 2010 edition | Dr Vino's wine blog
Why do it in a ballroom when you are clearly doing your partner a serious disservice? The Sun
The lectionary does preachers a disservice by cutting out verses 32-34: they are essential to the pericope.
Angry that I was doing older people such a great disservice. Times, Sunday Times
Sen. Dole would be much better off spending his energies calling the "miserable creatures" that are the current Republican leadership on the carpet for the disservice that have done this country – the one they all swore they would unswervingly serve. scot is for Obama now Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
To allow anywhere a disserviceable condition, when I could make it serviceable? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
By deciding to opt for the tax and spend route and gambling all on saving the NHS in a largely unreformed state Brown may, unwittingly, be doing his critics a favour and his followers a disservice.
To put this kind of guesstimate story out there is a disservice to your readers and as it will no doubt be referenced further down the line, should be an embarrassment to Harvard University. Print is still king: Only 3 percent of newspaper reading happens online » Nieman Journalism Lab
Well, I guess if I want to abdicate my position as a father figure to some bigmouthed ex-jock with a whistle around his neck play-acting Vince Lombardi to a bunch of impressionable little boys, then by the fu#@ed up parameters of modern parenting I'm doing my son a huge disservice. Youth Sports
Politicians of all parties are doing us a huge disservice in the run-up to the referendum. Times, Sunday Times
he did them a disservice
Politicians of all parties are doing us a huge disservice in the run-up to the referendum. Times, Sunday Times
I think the biggest disservice to this opera is the way it has been marketed. Archive 2007-04-01
It's not a funny site and acts as a disservice to our community.
To say that private insurance can't compete is really doing a major disservice to our smart business community which I'm sure will find a way to keep up their profits. House liberals tell Obama public option is 'essential'
Pete Cami gives a disturbing account of youth crime but your headline does a disservice to the efforts of the police.
I think, however, that this kind of deception is not only misleading to the reader, but a disservice to the writer. Totally Random Bullcrap
I think women who fake are doing themselves a massive disservice. The Sun
But the studio has done them a grave disservice with this uninspired and lacking disc transfer.
This ruling does a disservice to shoppers and genuine artisan bakers. Times, Sunday Times
This is bare-bones, disintegrating-nitrate-to-VHS-to-DVD imaging that does a disservice to the legacy of one of entertainment's truly stellar showmen.
But to assume that all Mexicans are beggars is to do the country a terrible disservice. Mexicans are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met
What's more, it's a disservice to the values held by the party's members to limit itself that way.
It did a serious disservice to half the population. Times, Sunday Times
Although you will often see his name prefaced with "dissident cleric," that does a great disservice to his more appropriate title, grand ayatollah - the highest rank achievable by Shia Muslim scholars - and the decades upon decades of study, thought, research, teaching and writing required to earn it. CounterPunch
This was a fine privilege for its editors and a confusing disservice to your readership.
I think it does a disservice to this entire process and to the ultimate point here, which is to get a president we all can accept as the legitimate president of the United States.
To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.
So, you know, I think it's a disservice to talk about the voyeuristic qualities or this business about her maidenhood and that kind of stuff.
I won't do Dr. Rich's lovely piece the disservice of trying to retell her experience as she wrestled with the discomfort the title induced in her initially, except to say I'm happy with the way she resolved the issue and that I love her, too. Norman Lear: "Born Again American": How the Idea Came About
Apart from the question of how far war can now settle any fundamental issues without begetting others as dangerous, China of all countries is the one where settlement by force, especially by outside force, is least applicable, and most likely to be enormously disserviceable. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference
For where alert and conscious criticism of existing folkways is habitual among all the members of a society, that society is saved from subjection through inertia to disserviceable habits. Human Traits and their Social Significance
I wonder if a disservice is being done, however inadvertantly, by not putting thoughts down on paper rather than on the screen. Academic Blogging: Officially Un-Cool
In doing so, he does a disservice to the conservationist community, American Indians and native peoples everywhere.
Why do it in a ballroom when you are clearly doing your partner a serious disservice? The Sun
To rot this thread just a little I really think we've done children a complete disservice by assuming them to be naive, innocent little creatures.
These tough mavericks provided a wonderful public service that has evolved to undiscerning disservice.
It is a misunderstanding of the First Amendment to suggest that we are prohibited from referring to religion in conversations on public policy; failing to do so impoverishes the debate and is a disservice to our democracy. Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: America Needs Religious Politicians
Maternal health seems to be a second class citizen; in doing so, a disservice is being done to that baby. A Good Birth | Her Bad Mother
Habits, and emotion; and instincts; disserviceable; education a deliberate acquisition of; formation of, influence of on thinking; modification of by reflection; of mind; specific not general; transference of. Human Traits and their Social Significance
For once, how about looking at the ways that yeasayers do a disservice to theater and the craft of criticism?
At one point I tried it as under score, but it felt like a disservice to the song.
To allow merchants of terror to change Spain would be a disservice to the memories of those who perished; Spanish culture and freedom must always be celebrated.
While I understand the temptation to reach for a shorthand to talk about New Amsterdam, generalizations like "alt-classical" really do the label a disservice as they mischaracterize the work of so many constituent artists and rob them of the creative idiosyncracies they've worked so hard to achieve. NewMusicBox
This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive). Times, Sunday Times
What's more, they are a disservice to the anti-war movement and the left, which will decisively reject them.
I think women who fake are doing themselves a massive disservice. The Sun
In the late 1970's Time magazine's cover did a disservice to the emerging field of sociobiology by featuring a portrait of a glassy-eyed couple attached to puppet strings, presumably meant to signify genes.
The article does a real disservice to those children who do have learning differences.
I am posting this remark because I believe a great disservice is being done those reading these forums by the person presenting this incorrect information. Insurance for "Tourist" Automobiles
They have done the poor a great disservice. Times, Sunday Times
Criticism is rather more directed toward the robber baron philosophy, welfare for corporate friends, cronyism, suppression of policies (instituted from the depression on) that ameliorate conditions for poor, elderly, disabled, and deprived children, and the general tone of disservice to the public that characterizes this administration. Sadie Hawkins day on cable « BuzzMachine
For me to give up and be too upset would be doing a huge disservice to all he sacrificed for us. The Sun
But that was to do a great disservice to one of the more ambitious and honest characters in English football. Times, Sunday Times
We both have our lives to live, and being airlifted out of the central field does a disservice to both of us.
By ignoring these issues in their reviews, critics are doing a great disservice to their readers.
This is a disservice to consumers but also to the new alternative energy. Times, Sunday Times
Angry that I was doing older people such a great disservice. Times, Sunday Times
If we are going to push the envelope by telling children that a willy is now a penis and a woohoo is now a vagina, then we would be doing a disservice to our little snowflakes if we didn't tell them what the slang names of the various sexual parts are. Fairy Tales With Safety Warnings
We do ourselves a great disservice when we condemn the healthy desires behind temptation. Christianity Today
I think that hypersensitivity to wording choices in a story like this does a real disservice to readers.
Any suspicion of positive discrimination is a profound disservice to people from underrepresented groups. Times, Sunday Times
This violence will do a grave disservice to their cause.
But that was to do a great disservice to one of the more ambitious and honest characters in English football. Times, Sunday Times
When Mr Non-Productive Employee gets a raise, it does a disservice to the productive employee.
All of which distorts our ideas of sport and its participants, to the great disservice of us all. Times, Sunday Times
It did a serious disservice to half the population. Times, Sunday Times
This is a disservice to consumers but also to the new alternative energy. Times, Sunday Times
We neither condemn nor praise the past as a whole; we regard specific institutions, customs, or ideas, as adequate or inadequate, as serviceable or disserviceable. Human Traits and their Social Significance
While it may seem equitable to accommodate everybody's needs, this often ends up doing users a disservice.
Students who complain when teachers enforce the conventions do themselves a great disservice. A Short Guide to Writing About History
This violence will do a grave disservice to their cause.
A friend of mine in the Republican circle used the word "pummeled" today, saying by outsiders, including friends saying you can't do this, you cannot put yourself out ahead of the people who have to make these decisions, like the Republicans in the Senate, that you do the party a disservice. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009
I presume a marriage33 which is contracted with some great family, superior in wealth and influence, bears away the palm, since it confers upon the bridegroom not pleasure only but distinction. 34 Next comes the marriage made with equals; and last, wedlock with inferiors, which is apt to be regarded as degrading and disserviceable. Hiero
This does a disservice to the immutable laws of the universe (many of them strange and counterintuitive). Times, Sunday Times
To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.
Wherefore, to carry it out of the understandings of ordinary Christians, by speculative notions and distinctions, is disserviceable unto the faith of the church; yea, the mixing of evangelical revelations with philosophical notions has been, in sundry ages, the poison of religion. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Students who complain when teachers enforce the conventions do themselves a great disservice. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Small shippers are most often disserviced by transportation breakdown.
If we do not grasp this opportunity we will be doing a disservice to the residents of this borough.
She does herself, and society as a whole, a huge disservice in the continuing battle to ensure that both men and women show each other mutual respect. The Sun
All of which distorts our ideas of sport and its participants, to the great disservice of us all. Times, Sunday Times
February 21st, 2009 at 12: 19 pm mr. yglesias, your espousal of mcdonalds does a disservice to the children who may peruse the content of your web journal, and so be further inclined toward consumption of unsalubrious items! best, Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks
They have done the poor a great disservice. Times, Sunday Times
But I would be doing the author a great disservice if I gave any impression that this is a political tract.
Fair point, but probably doing a disservice to the many historical battle re-enactment societies out there. Times, Sunday Times
Of equal disservice is the constant attacks on a much more viable candidate because she is a woman. Poll of polls: Obama losing ground
Yes her publisher is really doing her a disservice, even an amateur proofer could have caught most of the problems. “The Last Angel” by Natasha Rhodes
An educational system that does not teach economically viable skills is a disservice to the nation.
This ruling does a disservice to shoppers and genuine artisan bakers. Times, Sunday Times
Who can put a price on the psychological and social damage wrought by catastrophic disservices of our bureaucratized and impersonalized schools and colleges? Why Nothing Works
And to treat it as such is doing women in the workplace a huge disservice. The Sun
To act as such would be a disservice to the diverse student body as whole, and contrary to my elected mandate.
We do our young people a great disservice by not teaching languages in a more rigorous, consistent and inspired fashion. Times, Sunday Times
After a bit more wrangling, I decided that Mr. Manager had done me enough disservice to lose his service charge.
Okay, I do agree that by not complaining I'm doing a disservice to all consumers.
It would be the greatest disservice to India and a blot which could take years to erase.
But sloth and formality herein is a sign of a thriftless state in the inner man: and all inventions of such formality are disserviceable unto the interest of grace. Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
For me to give up and be too upset would be doing a huge disservice to all he sacrificed for us. The Sun
But sometimes, the gauziest, most emotion-laded, goose-bump-inspiring advertisements can be the most deceptive, and can do the greatest disservice to the public dialogue. Jonathan Miller: In Defense of the Indefensible: The Value of Truthful Negative Ads
But in general, I think we do ourselves a disservice as skeptics if we try to maintain that the only ‘pure’ skeptic is an atheist skeptic.
Both candidates do themselves a disservice by producing commercials that look and sound like bad infomercials.
Dennis, to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes, that Constellation is a complete and utter failure, and that Shuttle C is just another crackpot rocket design by a bunch of incompentent and failed architects is doing America and NASA a great favor, not a disservice. Today's Video: NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept - NASA Watch
This violence will do a grave disservice to their cause.
The technician has done a serious disservice to his company by disclosing the kerneled secrets about its main products to other companies.
I feel like the media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa. Times, Sunday Times
Local wineries fell into this trap as well, resulting in gawky, disjointed wines that did both the grape and the region a disservice. The New York Cork Report:
But in my self-service, I have done you a disservice, he said forlornly. Exit the Actress
She does herself, and society as a whole, a huge disservice in the continuing battle to ensure that both men and women show each other mutual respect. The Sun
I also think that anyone subletting their apartment or room for equal or less than the rent in this market is a fool, and is doing both themselves and the community a disservice.

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