Word Meanings - DISSERVICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.
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- MISCHIEF
+ chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by - ANNOYANCE
1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. - MISCHIEFFUL
Mischievous. Foote. - MISCHIEFABLE
Mischievous. Lydgate. - DETRIMENTAL
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. - DAMAGE FEASANT
Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. - MISCHIEF-MAKING
Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n. - DAMAGEABLE
1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit. - DISSERVICEABLE
Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv. - DAMAGE
The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges - DETRIMENTALNESS
The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness. - DETRIMENT
1. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton. 2. A charge made to students and - MISCHIEF-MAKER
One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity. - DISSERVICE
Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne. - INJURY
Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired - INDAMAGED
Not damaged. Milton. - ENDAMAGE
To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. - ENDAMAGEMENT
Damage; injury; harm. Shak. - ENDAMAGEABLE
Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. - INDAMAGE
See ENDAMAGE