Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disservice"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disservice \Dis*serv"ice\, n. [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F.
desservice.]
Injury; mischief.
We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than
any disservice unto their relators. --Sir T.
Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disservice
n : an act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a
disservice" [syn: {ill service}, {ill turn}] [ant: {service}]
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