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Disserve vs Misserve - What's the difference?

disserve | misserve |

As verbs the difference between disserve and misserve

is that disserve is to treat poorly; to do a disservice to while misserve is to serve unfaithfully.

disserve

English

Verb

(disserv)
  • To treat poorly; to do a disservice to
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=August 12, author=Michael Miner, title=Cop and Writer; Manhandling the Sun-Times, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=They are an excellent group of journalists, and over the last five years the executives manhandling their newspaper have disserved them at every turn. }}

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    misserve

    English

    Verb

  • To serve unfaithfully.
  • (Webster 1913)