disoblige
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Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
General Clavering, in particular, was supported by a large parliamentary connection, such as no cabinet could be inclined to disoblige.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
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
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!
"Why?" cry I, again letting fall my volume, and yielding to a curiosity as irresistible as unwise; for he had meant me to ask, and would have been disobliged if I had not.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
The man was sorry to have disobliged him, and would carry it back again.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
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
But the servants all seemed to have an impression that Missis would not be disobliged by delay.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
These particular friends who were not to be disobliged seem to have been shining lights of the Whig party.
From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
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
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
With bizarre exemptions such as these, is it any wonder that the British public is increasingly disobliging and restless?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
The reviewers were disobliging and they included me.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017
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
