disoblige
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When Preston came, as usual, the duke took his opportunity of asking him what he had ever done to disoblige him, that he should describe him in such black characters to his own party?
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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
She has married you because father or grandfather thought the match eligible, and because she didn't wish to disoblige them.
From International Short Stories American by Various
As she is the Reservoir of Favour, greater Court is made to her than to the Duke himself, and Woe be to those that dare to disoblige her!
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
Till when, pray believe me, with respect and esteem, Your most obliged and disobliged at these blank endings—what have I done?
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
What sleepless nights has it cost you to win over the disobliged, to conciliate the discontented, to cajole the contumatious!
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
Agaton knew well how to revenge the affront put upon her, and failed not to acquaint Fulbert with Abelard's offers to her, without saying a word how she had been disobliged.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
De Pradt, and many other of those statesmen whom Napoleon, in latter days, had disgraced or disobliged, were, ere this time, labouring diligently in the same service.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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
She was suspected of suffering in silence, when silence is seen as weak or disobliging, and she was denigrated for it, her denials distrusted.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2019
"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
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
