disservice
noun
harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
disserviceable
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a word derived from
disservice.
Example Sentences
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The characteristics named above as serving the interests of the community are disserviceable to the individual, rather than otherwise.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
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 Irwin Edman
—Patriotism disserviceable, yet men hold to it, 46.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
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 Irwin Edman
Devout observances are of economic importance as an index of a concomitant variation of temperament, accompanying the predatory habit of mind and so indicating the presence of industrially disserviceable traits.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
