disoblige
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Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
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
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 Alice MacGowan
This made them laugh, and then they questioned me about Saint James, and the troops there, and the captain-general; and not to disoblige them, I told them all I knew, and much more.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
Then I must leave your Realm, and bid Adieu, In spite of your fond Passion, or my own; For I can never disoblige my Father, Though by it I were sure to gain an Empire.
From Ponteach The Savages of America by Montrose Jonas Moses
I would not have disobliged you for the price of two such mares.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
What sleepless nights has it cost you to win over the disobliged, to conciliate the discontented, to cajole the contumatious!
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The fears, the inquietudes, the uneasy days, the restless nights; all arising from doubts of having disobliged me!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
“Well, I don't love Longcluse, since so he is named; he disobliged me when I was in London,” said the baron.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He had disobeyed and disobliged his father, and the thought of this troubled him.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
With bizarre exemptions such as these, is it any wonder that the British public is increasingly disobliging and restless?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
"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
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
