disoblige

Worth's natural disposition to disoblige the lawyer could be depended on to keep from Cummings whatever information he wanted before giving us his own news.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan

"I'm sorry to disoblige a lady," he said; "but you don't go out of this house to-night."

From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Bernard Partridge

It was consolatory, nevertheless, to her feelings, that Ireton, hitherto her defamer, should acquiesce in this offer, which, at least, not to disoblige Mrs Maple, she would accept for the moment.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

I am heartily sorry for it; for I declare, I would rather disoblige all the critics in the world than one of the fair sex.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

He came nearer, his hat under his arm, bowing to her, who sat as stately as a princess on her throne: but yet looked disobliged.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

I would not have disobliged you for the price of two such mares.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

What an enemy is a light and trifling spirit!—I was grieved because I had disobliged my mother.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth

In the next place, he invariably disobliged, and refused the applications, of any persons on whose behalf he understood Lysander to be interested, and thus gradually undermined his power.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

He is reported to be spiteful and malicious, even to the whole family of any single person who has once disobliged him; and to his own relations most of all.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

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

I sometimes wonder what it is that makes her get up in the morning and face the disobliging headlines and cartoons, and what it is is a very old-fashioned sense of public service.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

"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

After such outlay, it was disobliging to score only 60 times in the league last season and City were a hindrance to themselves.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2011

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