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  • verb Present participle of disserve.

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Examples

  • Much of it merely feeds the beaks of budget hawks while disserving the full discussion, not to mention truly fair and balanced journalism.

    Paul Kleyman: First Boomers Get Medicare (Will It Treat Media Ageism?) Paul Kleyman 2011

  • Much of it merely feeds the beaks of budget hawks while disserving the full discussion, not to mention truly fair and balanced journalism.

    Paul Kleyman: First Boomers Get Medicare (Will It Treat Media Ageism?) Paul Kleyman 2011

  • Much of it merely feeds the beaks of budget hawks while disserving the full discussion, not to mention truly fair and balanced journalism.

    Paul Kleyman: First Boomers Get Medicare (Will It Treat Media Ageism?) Paul Kleyman 2011

  • Or there is no relationship between cheating and the economy, and cheating is just a part of human nature that may serve individual interests while disserving societal interests.

    Dr. Jim Taylor: Cheaters Gone Wild! 2010

  • GRAYSON: Whoever it is that's causing the Republicans to fight tooth and nail against anything, absolutely anything, to have every vote come down to being 257 to 175 in the House, over and over and over again, those are the people who are -- who are really disserving American.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009 2009

  • Entrepreneurs come from all parts of the spectrum and to cast them in this negative light is disserving to the tens of thousands of individuals who have toiled and struggled to build successful businesses while providing jobs and a living for myriads of others.

    The Classic Entrepreneur: A Look at the Dark Side 2008

  • That such unfettered genius could have taken place is of no doubt, but The Doors tries to sell its schematic portrayal of these events with a disingenuously casual flair, exposing its own unimaginative approach while also disserving the creative process at hand.

    The Doors (1991): C 2007

  • And we've considered the ways in which our cultural and religious stories are now serving us -- or disserving us -- as we approach the great challenges of the coming century.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2007

  • And we've considered the ways in which our cultural and religious stories are now serving us -- or disserving us -- as we approach the great challenges of the coming century.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2007

  • That such unfettered genius could have taken place is of no doubt, but The Doors tries to sell its schematic portrayal of these events with a disingenuously casual flair, exposing its own unimaginative approach while also disserving the creative process at hand.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

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