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
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
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
"He's a good sort of man, and won't disoblige me, I'll warrant."
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
D'Artagnan saw that he should disoblige him by again interfering.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
He thought by this management that he should oblige both chiefs; whereas he highly disobliged the one, whose favour was of the most consequence to him, without gaining any reward from the other.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
The disarming of our men was what chiefly disobliged our people, though the weapons were only lodged in the custom-house, and those only belonging to the ship's company.
Cit.—And he has not disobliged you at all, has he?
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
The Earl of Liverpool, however, had disobliged his majesty in the November previous, by abandoning the Bill of Pains and Penalties; but what else could he have done?
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
I hope I may have leave to observe transiently, that none but angry men, that is, such as hold themselves disobliged at Court, are the Pillars of his Party.
From His Majesties Declaration Defended by John Dryden
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
I sometimes wonder what it is that makes her get up in the morning and face the disobliging headlines and cartoons, and what it is is a very old-fashioned sense of public service.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
"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
