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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

But under the conditions imposed by this reserve, the volume contains, I think, everything, or nearly everything, which may best serve him with the majority of lovers of poetry, nothing which may disserve him.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

“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

Survivors long disserved by formal institutions are turning away from systems that too readily dismiss them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2022

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

Your Majesty is greatly disserved in all of the things that I shall now mention.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Emma Helen Blair

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