disoblige
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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
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
He had too much regard for his own interest, and his tenure of office, to disoblige a man so influential and powerful as Alderman Morris.
From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Horatio Alger
"I am sorry to disoblige you, but I really couldn't."
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger
But there again—he could not be vicious simply to oblige these ladies, or rather to disoblige them; he must be what it seemed good to him to be.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
"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
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
What an enemy is a light and trifling spirit!—I was grieved because I had disobliged my mother.
From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth
They are ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers, but implacable when once disobliged.
I would not have disobliged you for the price of two such mares.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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
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
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
