How do you use Disservice in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like injury or service, plus the exact meaning.
Disservice meaning
Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
Using Disservice
- The main meaning on this page is: Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
- Useful related words include: ill service, ill turn, injury, service.
- In the example corpus, disservice often appears in combinations such as: disservice to, great disservice, be disservice.
Context around Disservice
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disservice
- In this selection, "disservice" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, huge, great and unpatriotic stand out and add context to how "disservice" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include doing a disservice to our and a great disservice to our. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disservice" sits close to words such as acreage, adaptable and akron, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disservice
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Caler said the letters do a disservice to the community. (10 words)
He said,”We regard this as a disservice, unpatriotic, and a disinformation. (12 words)
As Gigi says, judging your orgasms based on an unrealistic standard is a disservice to yourself. (16 words)
Miss Abdullah Salamatu, a trader, said Mr Dumelo had a lot of plans for the youth and women, and it would be a disservice on their part to allow him to represent a different Constituency in Parliament. (37 words)
The reason for not writing a new show right now is because, as Natasha points out, ‘We really want to finish this one and I think working on something else would do a disservice to this show. (37 words)
I feel like I wouldn't be able to give them the attention and support they need, and I worry that I would be doing them a disservice by agreeing to take them in," he shared. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
By ignoring the of need for S.T.E.A.M. education you are not only doing a disservice to our society, but you are also doing a disservice to our youth.
As Gigi says, judging your orgasms based on an unrealistic standard is a disservice to yourself.
But killing him, especially off-screen- felt like a huge disservice to everything he had accomplished with his allies beforehand.
But reducing this loss to a mere statistic is a disservice to the student’s memory.
But these are far from typical times, and I think we do a disservice if we ignore the significance — not just political, but also historical — of Biden’s visit.
But we are doing a disservice to Belize, I believe, that we did not define a cruise ship policy from the day we were elected.
Caler said the letters do a disservice to the community.
Cornering of these reserved seats only by socially-economically upward individuals will be a great disservice to the diversity and pluralism of women.
Founded by Justin Chung, the eatery is arguably the city’s fanciest chippy – in fact, resorting to flippantly branding it a ‘chippy’ does it a huge disservice.
He said,”We regard this as a disservice, unpatriotic, and a disinformation.
I feel like I wouldn't be able to give them the attention and support they need, and I worry that I would be doing them a disservice by agreeing to take them in," he shared.
If it shuts — I have been in several government shutdowns, and it’s a disservice to the American people.
In the two articles that I read, Amanze, disappointingly, packed too many falsehoods about the last election such that ignoring him will be a great disservice to our people, especially the younger, impressionable, easily excitable ones.
Miss Abdullah Salamatu, a trader, said Mr Dumelo had a lot of plans for the youth and women, and it would be a disservice on their part to allow him to represent a different Constituency in Parliament.
On top of that, we do a disservice to our own economy by choosing to contract out.
Otherwise, did the Gallagher family a disservice by ending things in an open-ended and unsatisfying way.
Sure, it's cute because Kutcher and Kunis are together in real life, but it felt like a disservice to Jackie.
The councilwoman said the actions against Jumbo's are a disservice to the community, saying businesses owned by people of color should be supported, not driven out.
The media is doing a disservice to the whole situation by focusing only on one people and ignoring the other people,” he said.
The reason for not writing a new show right now is because, as Natasha points out, ‘We really want to finish this one and I think working on something else would do a disservice to this show.
Common combinations with disservice
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- disservice to 91×
- great disservice 15×
- be disservice 15×
- is disservice 11×
- doing disservice 10×
- disservice by 10×
- do disservice 9×
- him disservice 7×
- does disservice 6×
- huge disservice 5×