disoblige
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Sorry to disoblige you, fellows," I said sincerely, "but your boss should not have run so close to the wind.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson
"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
Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
You would make yourself an object for the laughter and remarks of your shipmates; and would disoblige your owners, who, after this voyage, have promised you the command of a vessel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
"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
You have, as he says, disobliged a gentleman, the initial letters of whose name are P. T.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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 Daniel Defoe
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
"Why?" cry I, again letting fall my volume, and yielding to a curiosity as irresistible as unwise; for he had meant me to ask, and would have been disobliged if I had not.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
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
