How to Use disservice in a Sentence

disservice

noun
  • Her comments were a disservice to those volunteers.
  • That’s a disservice to the fans of those teams and of MLB as a whole.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This was a real disservice to the saucier in the kitchen.
    Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Denying them the right to do that would be a disservice.
    Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2019
  • And the hue and cry has largely been over what a disservice the short is to viewers.
    Michael Cavna, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
  • To refer to all of us as mere fans would be a disservice to her.
    Priyanka Chopra, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The lesser half of that equation does a disservice to the great work that goes into the rest of the phone.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
  • But this does the plant and the gardener a great disservice.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2021
  • But this does a disservice to the artists who have already blazed these trails.
    Bill Werde, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Yet a simple look at the box score does Smith a disservice.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 11 Dec. 2022
  • But that does a disservice to Dunn, who is, in many ways, the most valuable and skilled player on the team.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
  • Holding on to it is doing a disservice to you and to the people that want it.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And yet to silo the best looks from award shows in the 20th century to just that would be a disservice.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But to think of it in such simplified terms, is to do it a great disservice.
    David McElhenney, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Anything short of that would be a disservice to the men and women who gave their lives for this cause decades ago.
    Essence, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The divide does a disservice to both forms, and traps Byrne’s performance somewhere in the air above the first row.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
  • But covering them up is an offence to the dead and a disservice to the living.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In his case, though, to not describe KYLE that way would just be a disservice to his demeanor.
    Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • To make somebody play like him would be a disservice to that person.
    Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • It’s not quite the same as a spoiler alert, but describing all the stops on the journey would be a disservice.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 July 2021
  • That would do any open world Star Wars game a major disservice.
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • To attempt to even describe the film's final moments would do a disservice to both the film and those who haven't seen it.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Russia is doing itself a disservice by denying this to the rest of the world.
    Thomas Grove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • The biggest disservice any of us could do for our students right now is to not act in this moment.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This is not to say Gophers softball hasn’t been done a disservice.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 15 May 2017
  • Telling them to wait in line for their turn isn't just a disservice to them but also to the industry and a culture that needs them.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 June 2021
  • Reducing the vote to a tally of goals and assists does the award, and the players, a disservice, anyway.
    Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • So to deviate from their words and their tone would have been a disservice to their story.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2019
  • But the twist of Harley being yet another leech off Arthur, plus fabricating her own traumatic backstory just to fetishize Arthur’s mental illness, was a disservice to the lore of Harley herself.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Brady’s inability to criticize officials and teams is also a disservice to fans.
    Sean Gregory, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024

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