disoblige

American  

[dis-uh-blahyj] / ˌdɪs əˈblaɪdʒ /

verb (used with object)

disobliged, disobliging

1. to refuse or neglect to oblige; act contrary to the desire or convenience of; fail to accommodate.

2. to give offense to; affront.

   to be disobliged by a tactless remark.

3. to cause inconvenience to; incommode.

   to be disobliged by an uninvited guest.

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disoblige British  

/ ˌdɪsəˈblaɪdʒ /

verb

1. to disregard the desires of

2. to slight; insult

3. informal to cause trouble or inconvenience to

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Other Word Forms

• disobligingness
  noun
• disobliging
  adjective
• disobligingly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of disoblige

1595–1605; < Middle French desobliger, equivalent to des- dis- ¹ + obliger to oblige

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

disoblige disobliged disobliging

Mar. Do, that's a good Boy; and I won't disoblige him this two days.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

Sorry to disoblige you, Mr. Oliphant, but it would never do.

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang

Sorry to disoblige you, fellows," I said sincerely, "but your boss should not have run so close to the wind.

From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson

Worth's natural disposition to disoblige the lawyer could be depended on to keep from Cummings whatever information he wanted before giving us his own news.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan

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

There is a greatness and height in it, to love them that deserve not well of us, to be kind to the unfaithful, not to be easily provoked, and not soon disobliged.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

The Earl of Liverpool, however, had disobliged his majesty in the November previous, by abandoning the Bill of Pains and Penalties; but what else could he have done?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

Agaton knew well how to revenge the affront put upon her, and failed not to acquaint Fulbert with Abelard's offers to her, without saying a word how she had been disobliged.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle

We are all apt, you know, my dear, to praise our benefactors, because they are our benefactors; as if every body did right or wrong, as they obliged or disobliged us.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

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

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

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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