disoblige

Example Sentences

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Instead, it added, he had "portrayed himself as a victim of a conspiracy… and continued to refer to the complainants in a disobliging and sometimes offensive manner".

From BBC

With bizarre exemptions such as these, is it any wonder that the British public is increasingly disobliging and restless?

From The Guardian

Adolescence was not the fearful event it is now, when our innocent, adoring, clear-skinned children become “disobliging, somewhat deranged and kind of disgusting.”

From New York Times

It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.

From The Guardian

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