What's the difference between disserve and disservice?
Disserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The court ruled that, as long as the SEC’s deal with Citi was “fair and reasonable” (striking the word “adequate”) and that “the public interest would not be disserved,” Judge Rakoff would have to approve it.
Disservice
Definition:
(n.) Injury; mischief.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
(2) By pretending to ignore the scientific evidence, AquaBounty is doing readers a disservice.
(3) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
(4) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
(5) John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "The CBI claims to represent the interests of British industry but it's actually doing its members a great disservice.
(6) To have so few diverse representatives from the community does it a disservice.
(7) We would be doing a disservice to those warriors of justice … were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today,” he said.
(8) A call is made for physicians to continuously look for cheaper ways of managing patients without necessarily causing any disservice to the patient.
(9) Preserving the "every woman can nurse" myth contributes to perpetuating a simplistic view of lactation and does a disservice to the small percentage of women with primary causes of unsuccessful lactation.
(10) With that exclusion, they did all of us a disservice, because that history is Australia’s history, it is important for all Australians to know where we’ve come from, and by pretending it didn’t exist, they robbed us all of something unique.
(11) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
(12) "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature.
(13) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
(14) They have done a disservice to the field in disparaging basic research.
(15) October 31, 2013 12.04am GMT Email From Matthew: I know it is easy to decry the coverage by Fox, but they really did a disservice to the audience by breaking away from the Dropkick Murphys firing up the Boston faithful.
(16) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
(17) The physician who delays or defers a careful investigation into the cause of a given patient's hematuria (gross or microscopic) does the patient a disservice at best and, at worst, may inadvertently permit a significant disease process to become more extensive.
(18) By operating in isolation and missing the bigger picture, we can do them a disservice.
(19) The use of mythology to simplify experiments, to artificially "clarify" complex issues, or to "protect" patients is seen as a disservice.
(20) If you try to deny that's there, I do myself and the people I represent a disservice."