How to Use disservice in a Sentence

disservice

noun
  • Her comments were a disservice to those volunteers.
  • To refer to all of us as mere fans would be a disservice to her.
    — Priyanka Chopra, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But this does a disservice to the artists who have already blazed these trails.
    — Bill Werde, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2019
  • To not have his bat for even five innings would be putting the team at a great disservice.
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • To make somebody play like him would be a disservice to that person.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But to think of it in such simplified terms, is to do it a great disservice.
    — David McElhenney, CNN, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But to not be in those rooms is a disservice to people who aren’t being seen.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
  • And the hue and cry has largely been over what a disservice the short is to viewers.
    — Michael Cavna, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
  • And, frankly, a disservice to the viewer.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • To do otherwise, in his view, is a disservice to the team.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Holding on to it is doing a disservice to you and to the people that want it.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
  • To do it again but not do it properly would be a disservice to myself, my time.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
  • So certain things that would kill in a room are a disservice to the audience.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Anything short of that would be a disservice to the men and women who gave their lives for this cause decades ago.
    — Essence, 20 Oct. 2021
  • So to deviate from their words and their tone would have been a disservice to their story.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2019
  • That would do any open world Star Wars game a major disservice.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Cruz is even better To say how would be a massive disservice.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This also does a disservice to those who are earnestly trying to learn more about birds.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The biggest disservice any of us could do for our students right now is to not act in this moment.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a disservice to the fans of those teams and of MLB as a whole.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This is not to say Gophers softball hasn’t been done a disservice.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 15 May 2017
  • To say more would be a disservice to the nerve-shredding terror that follows.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But it’s been such a disservice to these actors who are doing some of the best work in their careers.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The lesser half of that equation does a disservice to the great work that goes into the rest of the phone.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Learning only on the job is a disservices to their patients.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But covering them up is an offence to the dead and a disservice to the living.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Calling it a trailer is a disservice.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Russia is doing itself a disservice by denying this to the rest of the world.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • But that does a disservice to Dunn, who is, in many ways, the most valuable and skilled player on the team.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
  • This is a disservice to both burgers and quesadillas.
    — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025

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