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Ill service   /ɪl sˈərvəs/   Listen
Ill service

noun
1.
An act intended to help that turns out badly.  Synonyms: disservice, ill turn.






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"Ill service" Quotes from Famous Books



... will now,' I said, 'try the nepenthe that all my friends in their letters are urging me to try—I will travel. Yes, I will go to Japan. My late experiences should teach me that Ja'afar's "Angel of Memory," who refashioned for him his dead wife out of his own sorrow and tears, did him an ill service. He who would fain be cured of the disease of a wasting sorrow should try to flee the "Angel of Memory," ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... it is to you I owe the ill service of bringing me back to life. Who knows?—I might have passed quietly away to death here had you not come and revived the feeble spark left in me. I must have ...
— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens



Words linked to "Ill service" :   service, injury



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