How to Use disservice in a Sentence

disservice

noun

• Her comments were a disservice to those volunteers.
• As for the memorials, removing them would be a disservice, Sherrill said.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 16 Aug. 2017
• Giving in to the allure of simple narratives does a disservice to our young people and undercuts our ability to help them.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Anything less does a terrible disservice to millions of people already suffering enough.
  — William D. Cohan, vanityfair.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• What once passed for governing and leadership has become a spectacle of disservice by people who call themselves public servants.
  — Author: Dan Balz, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 July 2017
• But paying homage to Hefner’s successes without laying bare what his legacy meant for women only tells the partial story and does a disservice to us all.
  — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 28 Sep. 2017
• The cuts are generally mild -- but coming at a time that the economy is roaring, and many educators see them as a disservice to students' educations.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• While commonly thought of relative to the high school classroom, this instruction must be provided as early as possible to avoid doing our children a grave disservice.
  — Julie Heath, Cincinnati.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• The Indians are culpable, no question, but focusing entirely on them does a disservice to the opponent.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• The point is that the more traditional minds in the organization still hold valuable information, so the Phillies would be doing themselves a disservice if they are not heard.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• That’s doing a great disservice to Americans, says Jose.
  — Keren Landman, Vox, 17 July 2024
• But to label Fort Lewis merely as a camp is a disservice: The guest rooms in its historic lodge, log cabins, and new cottages skew more luxury than rustic.
  — Madeline Weinfield, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024