Meanings of disutility in English

War-like emotions, he points out, may have been useful in an earlier civilization, but are now a total disutility.

Conclusions: This literature review highlights that at present utility scores (or disutility penalties) exist for relatively few health states in DKD.

Either they are not injurious enough to be eliminated by natural selection; or they are correlated with other organs, whose utility outweighs their disutility.

Utilities for each health state were determined, and disutilities were applied for complications and toxicities of treatment.

But an hereditary bent of human nature is not to be put out of the way with an argument showing that it has its disutilities.