Search Result for "disservice":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an act intended to help that turns out badly;
- Example: "he did them a disservice"
[syn: disservice, ill service, ill turn]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disservice \Dis*serv"ice\, n. [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F.
   desservice.]
   Injury; mischief.
   [1913 Webster]

         We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than
         any disservice unto their relators.      --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "disservice":
   atrocity, bad deed, bad turn, damage, disfavor, great wrong,
   grievance, gross injustice, harm, ill service, ill turn,
   imposition, injury, injustice, miscarriage of justice, outrage,
   raw deal, unkindness, wrong