disoblige
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I am heartily sorry for it; for I declare, I would rather disoblige all the critics in the world than one of the fair sex.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
"I am sorry to disoblige you, Mr. Tom Thornton; but I must respectfully decline to give you any information on that point," I answered, firmly.
From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Oliver Optic
But there again—he could not be vicious simply to oblige these ladies, or rather to disoblige them; he must be what it seemed good to him to be.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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!
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
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
The fellow, with a sort of dejection in his looks, asked me if he had disobliged me in anything?
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe
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
And, as nobody replied, she stamped her bare foot in its silken chamber-shoe, like any angry child in petty fury when disobliged.
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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
It is a disobliging truth: cats do not obey humans.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
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
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