Disserviceable

Dis`serv´ice`a`ble


a.1.Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in classic literature
n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation.
Because measures against one disaster may be disserviceable against another one [28], it is necessary to seek for optimum for all possible disasters in a given territory that belong to critical ones as the strategic management principles stipulate [3].
Around the same time, Thorstein Veblen, while railing against some of the rationalistic assumptions that appeared to belittle actual social behaviour (concerning, for example, the anthropological role of human labour), was adamant that spontaneous institutions unchecked by deliberation might be formally functional but still essentially dysfunctional or, as he put it, imbecilic or disserviceable (see Camic & Hodgson 2011, selection 38).
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