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

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)

And I have seen—I know not how many—selfish and unobliging and unsympathetic persons go friendless all their days in spite of wealth and fine appearance.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.

They set me down for an awkward young fellow, unobliging, and proud.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo