disoblige

True, Sir Luke—and I am afraid my father and mother will begin to be uneasy that I have not got one yet—and I shou'd be very sorry to disoblige them.

From Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.

I'm greatly afraid I am just out of meat, Sergeant—and I'm sorry now to disoblige you, and you not being in the habit of dealing with me—— Sergeant.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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 MacGowan, Alice

Sorry to disoblige, old feller, but I'm on duty where Miss Verbena is now, you see, as she's just promised to be my wife.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various

I shall endeavour, lady, and fail in nothing that is in my power to disoblige you; for there is none more ambitious of your ill opinion than I. Plea.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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 Lyth, John

Cit.—And he has not disobliged you at all, has he?

From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel

The fellow, with a sort of dejection in his looks, asked me if he had disobliged me in anything?

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

The man was sorry to have disobliged him, and would carry it back again.

From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles

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

"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

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

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