What's the difference between disservice and harm?

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."

Harm


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  • (n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  • (n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (2) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
  • (3) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
  • (4) I realise now that the drug is far less harmful then I believed at the time.
  • (5) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
  • (6) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (8) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
  • (9) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
  • (10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
  • (13) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (14) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (15) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
  • (16) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
  • (17) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (18) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
  • (19) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
  • (20) Education can increase compliance and sometimes modify harmful behavior.

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