disoblige
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D'Artagnan saw that he should disoblige him by again interfering.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
You would make yourself an object for the laughter and remarks of your shipmates; and would disoblige your owners, who, after this voyage, have promised you the command of a vessel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
"I am sorry to disoblige you, but I really couldn't."
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger
As she is the Reservoir of Favour, greater Court is made to her than to the Duke himself, and Woe be to those that dare to disoblige her!
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 the next place, he invariably disobliged, and refused the applications, of any persons on whose behalf he understood Lysander to be interested, and thus gradually undermined his power.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
There is a greatness and height in it, to love them that deserve not well of us, to be kind to the unfaithful, not to be easily provoked, and not soon disobliged.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Poor dear was disobliged by the mere sight of a bo't.
From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
He had disobeyed and disobliged his father, and the thought of this troubled him.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
"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
After such outlay, it was disobliging to score only 60 times in the league last season and City were a hindrance to themselves.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2011
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
