disservice

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noun

harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.

verb (used with object)

to provide inadequate or faulty service to: Small shippers are most often disserviced by transportation breakdowns.

Origin:
1590–1600; dis-¹ + service

Related forms

self-dis·serv·ice, noun

Synonyms
1. wrong, hurt, harm, injury, unkindness.

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disservice (dɪsˈsɜːvɪs)

—n
	an ill turn; wrong; injury, esp when trying to help

dis'serviceable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

disservice

1599, from dis- + service (q.v.).

Example sentences

So if you're clinging out of fear to a job you don't want, you're doing

yourself and the rest of us a disservice.

Misleading the non-scientific public on this does a great disservice.

Most of the people who were saying this shouldn't be allowed believed it had

the potential to do disservice or harm to students.

Climate change aside, biased scientists are doing a disservice to science.

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"The discussion of the whole problem of technology ... has been strangely led astray through an all-too-exclusive concentration upon the service or disservice the machines render to men. The assumption here is that every tool and implement is primarily designed to make human life easier and human labor less painful.... But ... homo faber, the toolmaker, invented tools and equipment in order to erect a world, not ... to help the human life process. The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary, they and the automatic motion of their processes have begun to rule and even destroy world and things."

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