disoblige
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But there again—he could not be vicious simply to oblige these ladies, or rather to disoblige them; he must be what it seemed good to him to be.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
"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
He had too much regard for his own interest, and his tenure of office, to disoblige a man so influential and powerful as Alderman Morris.
From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Horatio Alger
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
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 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
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
The prelate told him the bishopric was but a very small one, and he could not hope for a better if he disobliged the court.
From Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by Anonymous
The disarming of our men was what chiefly disobliged our people, though the weapons were only lodged in the custom-house, and those only belonging to the ship's company.
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
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
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
It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
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
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