From: "Baldwin" <revbill@gte.net>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.usage.english] Disbenefits
Date: 24 Nov 1997 12:21:14 +0100

Subject: Disbenefits 
From: Brian J Goggin <bjg@wordwrights.ie>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english

From a letter in *Private Eye* No 936 31 Oct. '97:

"The benefits of circumcision I believe are considerable; its
disbenefits are negligible."

Disbenefits? Yes, I know what it means and, yes, it's in several
dictionaries (marked /Brit/ in COD9), but isn't it an ugly word?

And, in the context, wouldn't "drawbacks" be more ... poetic?