How to Use disservice in a Sentence
disservice
noun- Her comments were a disservice to those volunteers.
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The stunningly flawed test by Marketplace is a tremendous disservice to our customers.
— Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2017 -
To distill her down to a single titillating picture does a disservice to the breadth of her accomplishments.
— Mallory Andrews, Esquire, 28 Dec. 2016 -
As a result, there are many poor performing charter schools in Michigan continuing to do a disservice to children.
— Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017 -
This is a disservice to the country and is exactly why voters chose Donald J. Trump as their next president.
— Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 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 -
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 -
Whatever the reasons, ignoring the overwhelming good news about the ease of voting in America does a great disservice to the public.
— Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 -
To keep going after an evasive answer by asking the same question six ways from Sunday means throwing out much else of import on the docket, thus doing voters a disservice by limiting the scope of the debate.
— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2024
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