disoblige
Example Sentences
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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
Instead, it added, he had "portrayed himself as a victim of a conspiracy… and continued to refer to the complainants in a disobliging and sometimes offensive manner".
From BBC
With bizarre exemptions such as these, is it any wonder that the British public is increasingly disobliging and restless?
From The Guardian
Adolescence was not the fearful event it is now, when our innocent, adoring, clear-skinned children become “disobliging, somewhat deranged and kind of disgusting.”
From New York Times
It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.
From The Guardian
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