disservice

Word family

dis·ser·vice1 /dɪˈsɜːvəs, dɪsˈsɜː $ -ɜːr-/ noun

do somebody/something a disservice (also do a disservice to somebody/something)HARM/BE BAD FOR to do something that gives other people a bad opinion of someone or something 损害[破坏]某人/某物的声誉[形象]

The fans have done the game a great disservice.

球迷们的行为大大损害了这项运动的名声。

Examples from the Corpus

do somebody/something a disservice• The remedial programs we knew about did a disservice to their students by thinking of them as remedial.• The fans' rude behavior has done the game a great disservice.• When Mr Non-Productive Employee gets a raise, it does a disservice to the productive employee.• Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice.

Examples from the Corpus

disservice• I would have done her a disservice had I immediately jumped in to help.• Am I really doing him a disservice if I leave it as one big C: drive?• The evidence from excellent companies strongly suggests that managers who feel this way are doing them selves a disservice.• This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice.• To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.• By confusing unrelated issues and taking information out of context, you do readers a great disservice.• Well, it does them a great disservice.