0 an action that harms something or someone:
She has done a great disservice to her cause by suggesting that violence is justifiable.
This is an unfortunate disservice to his obvious archival expertise and impressive compilation of evidence.
Do we do a great artist more of a disservice by admitting his personal faults, or by denying them?
Linguists do a great disservice to literature when they approach the study of written texts from strictly a social science perspective.
Further, if students graduate without the ability to be articulate about their own work, their education has done them a disservice.
In doing so, the authors do themselves and their project a disservice.
The language of ' last resort ' does older people and providers a disservice.
If we had stereotyped their beliefs, we would have done them a disservice and constructed a difference that might not have existed.
I feel that the publishers have done the author a disservice, as its thesis-like form detracts from its otherwise excellent content.