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

Miss Archer surveyed the unobliging witness in vexed silence.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline

I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill- tempered and unobliging child.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

Never mind," H. O. said, "they'll be sorry enough afterwards, nasty, unobliging things, because now they won't see the circus.

From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)