Definition of "disservice" []

• A harmful action; an injury. (noun)

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• "A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married."
• "Maternal health seems to be a second class citizen; in doing so, a disservice is being done to that baby."
• "Of equal disservice is the constant attacks on a much more viable candidate because she is a woman."