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Disservice   /dɪsˈərvəs/   Listen
Disservice

noun
1.
An act intended to help that turns out badly.  Synonyms: ill service, ill turn.






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"Disservice" Quotes from Famous Books



... reactionary spirit which is now so rampant in India. More than any other person, and chiefly because she is of the West, and speaks in the accents of the West, she has antagonized progress in this land, not only religiously but also socially, and has done the greatest disservice to the people of India. In her eyes, Hindu philosophy and ritual, Hindu institutions and domestic life, have practically nothing to learn from the West, and need only to be known in order to ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

... who engineer a corner in corn, or meat, or cotton, or some other vital commodity, and that the unearned increment in land is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion, not to the service but to the disservice done. It is monopoly which is the keynote; and where monopoly prevails, the greater the injury to society the greater the reward of the monopolist ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling



Words linked to "Disservice" :   service, ill service, injury, ill turn



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