disoblige

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

General Clavering, in particular, was supported by a large parliamentary connection, such as no cabinet could be inclined to disoblige.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"I am sorry to disoblige you, but I really couldn't."

From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger

She has married you because father or grandfather thought the match eligible, and because she didn't wish to disoblige them.

From International Short Stories American by Various

I'm greatly afraid I am just out of meat, Sergeant—and I'm sorry now to disoblige you, and you not being in the habit of dealing with me—— Sergeant.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

Possibly after I have disobliged him so much, he may be glad to have her so easily provided for, with money already raised; especially if he has a design to marry himself, as I hear.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

“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

And, as nobody replied, she stamped her bare foot in its silken chamber-shoe, like any angry child in petty fury when disobliged.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Next day he made two mistakes in the first bill, disobliged a customer by surly answers, and dated all his entries in the journal in a wrong month.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

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

Mr Poon's ancestors were dotted in random, disobliging clumps over the entire hillside, thus attesting to Wallace that key characteristics of that irksome family were transmitted beyond death itself.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012

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