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disserve - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb poorly ; to do a disservice to
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dis- + serve
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Such characterizations of profoundly disserve our nation.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Judicial Filibusters: Partisanship Run Amok Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
Such characterizations of profoundly disserve our nation.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Judicial Filibusters: Partisanship Run Amok Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
Glad that we have the President we need in these hard times and not President so many of these bitter flat-earthers disserve .
Gingrich praises Obama's speech 2009
The 95% of us police officers who sincerely strive to "serve and protect" are tarnished by the 5% of us who intentionally "disserve and destroy."
Dawn Teo: Protest Against America's Toughest Sheriff Turns Violent in Arizona 2010
Does evolution disserve our admiration for all it has accomplished?
Bunny and a Book 2008
Another problem is that the numbers, for all their elegance, capture only part of the game, and they disserve Mays by failing to reflect his strategic, intangible contributions inducing bad throws, quick first steps in the outfield, positioning, knowledge of hitters, and so on.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
We are better than this and if we are not we don't disserve the White House in the first place.
Obama searching for cash in Florida 2008
It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets.
Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food? 2009
Those trade restrictions in particular tend to disserve both the poorest people in the West and the poorest people in the world.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
Does not tenure, in this case and generally, disserve liberty?
Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009
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