0 an action that harms something or someone:
She has done a great disservice to her cause by suggesting that violence is justifiable.
I thought that it would do the book a disservice in the long run by appearing too quirky, and instead aimed for a balance of hard fact and inspiring images.
A great disservice will be done to studies in indigenization if cognizance is not taken of those structures widely used by the masses, whether educated or not.
It is really a disservice to those people who have extended their skills.
Worse yet, why use it to do a disservice to people whose suffering renders them so vulnerable?
Unfortunately all this results in a review that does a disservice to everyone, the reviewer included.
No evident disservice had been done to the subject-matter.
A journal which seeks to pursue and legitimate a narrow definition of the field will do a disservice to architecture and its research community.
I feel that the publishers have done the author a disservice, as its thesis-like form detracts from its otherwise excellent content.