I presume a marriage33 which is contracted with some great family, superior in wealth and influence, bears away the palm, since it confers upon the bridegroom not pleasure only but distinction. 34 Next comes the marriage made with equals; and last, wedlock with inferiors, which is apt to be regarded as degrading and disserviceable. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Wherefore, to carry it out of the understandings of ordinary Christians, by speculative notions and distinctions, is disserviceable unto the faith of the church; yea, the mixing of evangelical revelations with philosophical notions has been, in sundry ages, the poison of religion. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
But sloth and formality herein is a sign of a thriftless state in the inner man: and all inventions of such formality are disserviceable unto the interest of grace. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
If the acquisition of bad, that is, disserviceable habits, is disastrous to the individual, it is in some respects even worse in the group. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
We neither condemn nor praise the past as a whole; we regard specific institutions, customs, or ideas, as adequate or inadequate, as serviceable or disserviceable. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
To allow anywhere a disserviceable condition, when I could make it serviceable? ❋ Various (N/A)
Habits, and emotion; and instincts; disserviceable; education a deliberate acquisition of; formation of, influence of on thinking; modification of by reflection; of mind; specific not general; transference of. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
For where alert and conscious criticism of existing folkways is habitual among all the members of a society, that society is saved from subjection through inertia to disserviceable habits. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
Stromboli Smith OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Apart from the question of how far war can now settle any fundamental issues without begetting others as dangerous, China of all countries is the one where settlement by force, especially by outside force, is least applicable, and most likely to be enormously disserviceable. ❋ John Dewey (1905)
Devout observances are of economic importance as an index of a concomitant variation of temperament, accompanying the predatory habit of mind and so indicating the presence of industrially disserviceable traits. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The required legitimation is ordinarily sought by showing that although sports are substantially of a predatory, socially disintegrating effect; although their proximate effect runs in the direction of reversion to propensities that are industrially disserviceable; yet indirectly and remotely -- by some not readily comprehensible process of polar induction, or counter-irritation perhaps -- sports are conceived to foster a habit of mind that is serviceable for the social or industrial purpose. ❋ Unknown (1899)
That bent seems to be of an economically disserviceable kind, but this fact -- somewhat notorious indeed -- need disturb no one who has the good fortune to find comfort and strength in the classical lore. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The characteristics named above as serving the interests of the community are disserviceable to the individual, rather than otherwise. ❋ Unknown (1899)
So much, however, is fairly within the possibilities of the calculable future; its realisation would turn in great measure on the discontinuance of certain outworn or disserviceable institutional arrangements; as, e.g., the remnants of a decayed monarchy, and the legally protected vested interests of certain business enterprises and of certain office-holding classes. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
So that the undisturbed and undiminished prevalence of this trait among the European population, early or late, argues nothing as to its net serviceability or disserviceability under any of the varying conditions of culture and technology to which these Europeans have been subjected, first and last; except that it has, in any case, not proved so disserviceable under the conditions prevailing hitherto as to result in the extinction of these ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
-- Patriotism disserviceable, yet men hold to it, 46. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
At the same time, with the advance of population, of culture and of the industrial arts, patriotism has grown increasingly disserviceable; and it is to all appearance as ubiquitous and as powerful as ever, and is held in as high esteem. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
It would perhaps be an under-statement to say that these gentlemanly qualifications are no longer of any account, for the purpose immediately in hand, and it would doubtless not do to say that they are wholly and unreservedly disserviceable as things run today; but captious critics might find at least a precarious footing of argument on such a proposition. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
Jane was furious with her father after he [forbid] her from dating Carlos, after Carlos dropped her off in his Civic Disservice, and wearing a [wife beater] shirt that showed off his [tribal] band tattoo ❋ Kavka (2010)
Person 1: BITCH I WANTED TO SEE A HOT GIRL IN A BIKINI, BUT ALL I FOUND WAS [EGGMAN] IN A FUCKING SLIM BIKINI! THIS IS FUCKING [FAN DISSERVICE]!
Person 2: [Eggman] in a Bikini is good [Fan service], you faggot.
Person 1: KILL YOURSELF! ❋ GoldenFartRequiem (2023)
My dog [Bella] is a [certified] disservice animal who [benefits] no person with disabilities or otherwise. ❋ Idiotvillager (2020)
So I bought a new [tracfone] and tried to switch over my old [tracfone's] numbers and minutes to it. After a week of dealing with the stupid, lying, incompetent [pedros] in their customer disservice department I just said "Fuck it". They got me for the new phone, the memory for it and the card, but at least I'm not having them steal more of my life wasting time trying to get it to work anymore. ❋ Doktor Strangelove (2011)
MySpace new Terms of Disservice (TOD) has [outraged] and [alienated] millions of people whose blogs have been deleted, which amounts of a virtual stealing of a person's [intellectual property]. ❋ Disenfranchised Poet (2013)
