as in injustice
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
you do a great disservice to the professionals at the day-care center when you refer to them as "babysitters"
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Recent Examples of disservice
Advisors who ignore this reality are doing their clients a disservice.
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Christian Faes, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
That said, playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in portable mode does do the game itself a disservice and to ignore that would be disingenuous on my part.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Following Heath Ledger’s Joker performance in The Dark Knight was always going to be a difficult task, and this movie’s sound design (like Dunkirk’s) does Hardy a disservice by muffling so much of his dialogue as Bane through that damn mask.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
The fact that there are a bunch of other female characters dealing with other kinds of conflicts helps, but making Bix a perpetual victim, at least to this point in the series, is a disservice to her.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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Christian Faes, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
That said, playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in portable mode does do the game itself a disservice and to ignore that would be disingenuous on my part.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Following Heath Ledger’s Joker performance in The Dark Knight was always going to be a difficult task, and this movie’s sound design (like Dunkirk’s) does Hardy a disservice by muffling so much of his dialogue as Bane through that damn mask.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
The fact that there are a bunch of other female characters dealing with other kinds of conflicts helps, but making Bix a perpetual victim, at least to this point in the series, is a disservice to her.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disservice
Noun
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Throw in the doping allegations, and Hungary’s loss must be considered one of football’s greatest injustices.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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Their picks examine the power of demagogues, the injustices of the immigration system, the reasons protest movements have failed, and the fear of others.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 May 2025
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In those days, most people could distinguish right from wrong, and children went to summer camps without fear of government intervention.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
23 May 2025
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And as far as identifying the origin of any issues that arise, an agent that interprets an order wrong can be as much at fault as a cooking agent that fails to recognize flaws in the request, Thakur says.—
Paresh Dave,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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“Disservice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disservice. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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