disoblige

"The Commune was desirous to leave them all liberty in the conduct of the military operations; it was as far from wishing to disoblige them as from wishing to weaken their authority."

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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 will teach you to dare importune Mr. Gorgibus, and plague him with your absurdities!——Ah! my brother … ——Hold your tongue, I tell you.——I would not disoblige … —— … Be silent, rascal.——

From The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant) by Charles Heron Wall

I shall endeavour, lady, and fail in nothing that is in my power to disoblige you; for there is none more ambitious of your ill opinion than I. Plea.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

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

In this, the populace thought he had acted the part of a man; but he much disobliged the tribunes, his colleagues, who regarded it as a piece of violent and presumptuous interference.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

I would not have disobliged you for the price of two such mares.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

The prelate told him the bishopric was but a very small one, and he could not hope for a better if he disobliged the court.

From Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by Anonymous

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

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

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

"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

Ireland, with the images of Jack Charlton's side incised on the national consciousness forever, have been seen at times as a disobliging bunch.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 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