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Example sentences for "disservice"

Lexicographically close words:
dissents; dissepiments; dissertation; dissertationes; dissertations; dissever; disseverance; dissevered; dissidence; dissident
  1. Consequently, I believe that there is no man who will not affirm that from the time that the governor entered this country, he has done no good thing, but all in disservice of your Majesty, at least in the regular procedure.

  2. It would be doing Mark Twain a disservice to compare him to Molière, the greatest comic dramatist of all time; and yet there is more than one point of similarity.

  3. Lastly, The brother, after second thoughts, may think he hath done another disservice to the magistrate, in making the magistracy to be below and behind the ministry.

  4. For his part, after he had acknowledged he had given offence, it is a disservice to the Parliament to lay over the thing upon them.

  5. In 1537 the Córtes had suggested a payment to the Inquisition of four hundred ducats per annum in return for Morisco impunity from pecuniary penance, but the Suprema had refused the proposition as inadequate and as a disservice to God.

  6. They can't discover their Disgust without disadvantage, nor Blush without disservice to their Modesty.

  7. To represent a Person fairly and without disservice to his Reputation, two Things are to be observ'd.

  8. He knew corrupting the People was the greatest disservice to the Commonwealth; And that Publick Ruine was the effect of general Debauchery.

  9. God is unjust," or "I must have done some great disservice to the Lord.

  10. It is virtual music to the ears to hear someone in this age admit that he has made a mistake or has done a grave disservice to humankind.

  11. To this Gonzalo Pizarro answered that he desired no disservice to the King, but to procure the liberty of the kingdom, for which object he would use all his power without swerving until that object was attained.

  12. Thus, in what light soever we view them, the pretensions of the priests are reduced to a nonentity, compared to the disservice they render the community by their exactions and dissolute lives.

  13. They growl terribly, defend themselves, and wound their enemies with their under tusks; for the upper are rather of disservice than of use to them.

  14. One cannot help feeling that in this book Mr. Buxton does a serious disservice to his reputation as a Balkan expert.

  15. We will not do a great man such a disservice as to dig him up for a spectacle.

  16. Surely we desire to see no more of them; and we are heartily willing that the same progress of thought which has swept them away, should have done us a disservice meanwhile, which more thinking shall put an end to.


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