disoblige
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"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
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, but I really couldn't."
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger
Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
Erizo, unwilling to disoblige his Admiral, upon whose Favour his Advancement depended, told Gonzago, that he must find another time to talk with him.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Montague Summers
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
The man was sorry to have disobliged him, and would carry it back again.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
He had disobeyed and disobliged his father, and the thought of this troubled him.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
"See, my Lady," cried she, "your new robe, as Madame has sent home half a day sooner than her word; and she has disobliged several of the quality by not giving the pattern."
From Marriage by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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
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
The reviewers were disobliging and they included me.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017
As one disobliging student says of them, “The only thing they care about is looking like they care.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2016
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
