disoblige

It was consolatory, nevertheless, to her feelings, that Ireton, hitherto her defamer, should acquiesce in this offer, which, at least, not to disoblige Mrs Maple, she would accept for the moment.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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

D'Artagnan saw that he should disoblige him by again interfering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

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

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!

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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

They are ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers, but implacable when once disobliged.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

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

Poor dear was disobliged by the mere sight of a bo't.

From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

The reviewers were disobliging and they included me.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017

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