disservice

IPA: dɪsˈɝvʌs

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

To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.

Examples of "disservice" in Sentences

Of equal disservice is the constant attacks on a much more viable candidate because she is a woman.
Maternal health seems to be a second class citizen; in doing so, a disservice is being done to that baby.
I wonder if a disservice is being done, however inadvertantly, by not putting thoughts down on paper rather than on the screen.
I am posting this remark because I believe a great disservice is being done those reading these forums by the person presenting this incorrect information.
A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married.
While I understand the temptation to reach for a shorthand to talk about New Amsterdam, generalizations like "alt-classical" really do the label a disservice as they mischaracterize the work of so many constituent artists and rob them of the creative idiosyncracies they've worked so hard to achieve.