disoblige

"I am sorry to disoblige you, Mrs. Ross, but it would be unjust," said Mr. Mead.

From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Horatio Alger

"I am sorry to disoblige you, Mr. Tom Thornton; but I must respectfully decline to give you any information on that point," I answered, firmly.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Oliver Optic

To inconvenience and disoblige so large a constituency as this may naturally produce some effect.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick

Then I must leave your Realm, and bid Adieu, In spite of your fond Passion, or my own; For I can never disoblige my Father, Though by it I were sure to gain an Empire.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Montrose Jonas Moses

He disliked very much to disoblige her, as she belonged to one of the most distinguished families of Georgia, and had many influential relatives among the Secessionists.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday

The fears, the inquietudes, the uneasy days, the restless nights; all arising from doubts of having disobliged me!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

In this, the populace thought he had acted the part of a man; but he much disobliged the tribunes, his colleagues, who regarded it as a piece of violent and presumptuous interference.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

A man, that saw, and loved, and disobliged, Is banished, and is mad, all in a moment.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

But the servants all seemed to have an impression that Missis would not be disobliged by delay.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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

Granted, Sir Chris Bryant was almost as disobliging about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 15 years ago, as an opposition MP, when there were calls then for him to be sacked as the government's trade envoy.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020

"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