unobliging
Example Sentences
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India must be either Shining or Slumdog; and never mind the other bits, the unobliging history or context.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013
The elegance and grandeur of the theory, however, persuaded him that the observations must be in error, a conclusion drawn when the observations are unobliging by many other theorists in the history of science.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Patty watched one poor lady, who seemed to be travelling alone, and who continually inquired of the stolid and unobliging porters, "Do you speak English?" and invariably received the reply, "Non, madame; non, madame."
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
Miss Archer surveyed the unobliging witness in vexed silence.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester
I immediately settled to start an agency for this object—somewhat on the principle of ‘Lady Guides’—the full title being ‘The agency for supplying Brothers to brotherless girls, or those with unobliging brothers.’
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
