disservice

From dis- +‎ service.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪ(s)ˈsɜːvɪs/
• (US) enPR: dis·sər´vĭs, IPA^(key): /dɪ(s)ˈsɝvɪs/

disservice (countable and uncountable, plural disservices)

1. Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.

   One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.

   • 2014, Michele Kaschub, Janice Smith, Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     Often schools of music focus solely on the canon of Western classical art music, but this is a disservice to music educators who will have to deal with students from many different backgrounds and preferences.

   • 2018 July 5, Sam Greer, “Games want to offer us many roads but Kentucky Route Zero is the one road that matters”, in Eurogamer‎:

     Treating narratives like something you can stretch out to give more value does a disservice to players and our engagement.

disservice (third-person singular simple present disservices, present participle disservicing, simple past and past participle disserviced)

1. To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
   • 1975, Sarah Katharine Thomson, Learning resource centers in community colleges:

     One librarian said, "I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers."

• disserve

• “disservice”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “disservice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.