disserve

Example Sentences

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Another change would “cause substantial disruption and disserve the public interest,” the administration said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022

To suggest otherwise, especially in these fractious times, is to disserve the electoral process.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2020

Bright also said the government was doing a disserve to Americans by playing down the possibility that it could take years to develop a vaccine that could be ready for mass distribution.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

But in this country parched for heroes, there is a long tradition of using the language of “heroism” to disserve the heroes and, indeed, to affirmatively harm them.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2020

By an odd chance and counter-chance, the edition which served for this last perusal, after threatening to disserve its text, had an exactly contrary result.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George