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Another change would “cause substantial disruption and disserve the public interest,” the administration said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

To suggest otherwise, especially in these fractious times, is to disserve the electoral process.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2020

Bright also said the government was doing a disserve to Americans by playing down the possibility that it could take years to develop a vaccine that could be ready for mass distribution.

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2020

But in this country parched for heroes, there is a long tradition of using the language of “heroism” to disserve the heroes and, indeed, to affirmatively harm them.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2020

By an odd chance and counter-chance, the edition which served for this last perusal, after threatening to disserve its text, had an exactly contrary result.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

“This omission disserved Times readers. The paper says its reporting was thorough and ‘in line with our editorial standards.’”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

This was a very curious decision that disserved readers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

That commitment has been disserved by today’s decision.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020

Wilson’s embrace of the Confederacy disserved history in ways that were evident from the start.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2020

And we beleven of the day of doom, and that every man schalle have his meryte, aftre he hathe disserved.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Gray tried to appease several masters and ended up disserving and disgracing everyone, from the president to the bureau on down to himself.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018

We are serving the public but also disserving it.

From Washington Post

Miss Kennedy smirked, disserving, coral lips, at first, at second.

From Ulysses by James Joyce