disoblige

"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

Worth's natural disposition to disoblige the lawyer could be depended on to keep from Cummings whatever information he wanted before giving us his own news.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan

We are so fond of, and pleased with the general Notion of seeing the Devil, that I am loth to disoblige my Readers so much as calling in question his Visibility would do.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe

Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

D'Artagnan saw that he should disoblige him by again interfering.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

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

What an enemy is a light and trifling spirit!—I was grieved because I had disobliged my mother.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth

They are ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers, but implacable when once disobliged.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Next day he made two mistakes in the first bill, disobliged a customer by surly answers, and dated all his entries in the journal in a wrong month.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

His relations, however, seemed determined to push him forward in life, before he disobliged them by marrying the daughter of a country clergyman, an accomplished, sensible woman.

From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

The reviewers were disobliging and they included me.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017

"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