disoblige

It was consolatory, nevertheless, to her feelings, that Ireton, hitherto her defamer, should acquiesce in this offer, which, at least, not to disoblige Mrs Maple, she would accept for the moment.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Sorry to disoblige, old fellow, but I'm on duty where Miss Verbena is now, you see, as she's just promised to be my wife.

From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey

To inconvenience and disoblige so large a constituency as this may naturally produce some effect.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick

Then I must leave your Realm, and bid Adieu, In spite of your fond Passion, or my own; For I can never disoblige my Father, Though by it I were sure to gain an Empire.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Montrose Jonas Moses

Sorry to disoblige, old feller, but I'm on duty where Miss Verbena is now, you see, as she's just promised to be my wife.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various

We are all apt, you know, my dear, to praise our benefactors, because they are our benefactors; as if every body did right or wrong, as they obliged or disobliged us.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

A man, that saw, and loved, and disobliged, Is banished, and is mad, all in a moment.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

De Pradt, and many other of those statesmen whom Napoleon, in latter days, had disgraced or disobliged, were, ere this time, labouring diligently in the same service.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

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

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

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

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

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