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Definition: DISSERVICEABLE |
DISSERVICEABLEAdjective1. Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Adjective: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DISSERVICEABLE |
| Specialty definitions using "DISSERVICEABLE": Ovation. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place. "I had an ovation!" the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That people and critics by him had been led By the ear. The Latin lexicon makes his absurd Assertion as plain as a peg; In "ovum" we find the true root of the word. It means egg. Dudley Spink |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-r-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: disbelievers. | |
-3 letters: disbeliever, disbelieves, receivables, serviceable. | |
-4 letters: cervelases, deceivable, deliveries, desirables, diableries, disbelieve, disservice, larvicides, receivable, serialised, silverside, verbicides. | |
-5 letters: beardless, bedrivels, believers, blesseder, caressive, clerisies, crevassed, deceivers, decreases, derivable, describes, desilvers, desirable, devilries, devisable, diablerie, diaereses, diaeresis, driveable, eversible, idealises, irascible, larvicide, recessive, revisable, sclereids, sealeries, serialise, severable, slaveries, verbicide, veridical, versicles, vibrissae. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 53 45 52 56 49 43 45 41 42 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... . .-. ...- .. -.-. . .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010010 01010110 01001001 01000011 01000101 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S S E R V I C E A B L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0053 0045 0052 0056 0049 0043 0045 0041 0042 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3843535339525643373935364639 |
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