disserve
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
The man, too, if he be an artful fellow, will learn many family details about us, that may disserve us.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
“This omission disserved Times readers. The paper says its reporting was thorough and ‘in line with our editorial standards.’”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
This was a very curious decision that disserved readers.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
That commitment has been disserved by today’s decision.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
Wilson’s embrace of the Confederacy disserved history in ways that were evident from the start.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2020
I question if these barbed words, Sir Knight, Alighted so, as to have much disserved you.
From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William
Gray tried to appease several masters and ended up disserving and disgracing everyone, from the president to the bureau on down to himself.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018
We are serving the public but also disserving it.
From Washington Post
Miss Kennedy smirked, disserving, coral lips, at first, at second.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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