disobliging

Example Sentences

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A few are offering the odd disobliging word about Mr Dowden, suggesting he never wanted to be party chairman in the first place and was very disappointed to be demoted from being culture secretary.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022

"You know, the great British portraitist. He was jealous of the prices she commanded and in his work Oriental Tales he was most disobliging about her. Said she was feeble and vulgar!"

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

Mr Poon's ancestors were dotted in random, disobliging clumps over the entire hillside, thus attesting to Wallace that key characteristics of that irksome family were transmitted beyond death itself.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2012

Ireland, with the images of Jack Charlton's side incised on the national consciousness forever, have been seen at times as a disobliging bunch.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling