disserviceable
- a word derived from disservice.
Example Sentences
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To allow anywhere a disserviceable condition, when I could make it serviceable?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
We neither condemn nor praise the past as a whole; we regard specific institutions, customs, or ideas, as adequate or inadequate, as serviceable or disserviceable.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
For where alert and conscious criticism of existing folkways is habitual among all the members of a society, that society is saved from subjection through inertia to disserviceable habits.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
Stromboli Smith OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
If the acquisition of bad, that is, disserviceable habits, is disastrous to the individual, it is in some respects even worse in the group.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
