Example Sentences

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To his exacting teen and preteen audience, “the Danish person,” as they disobligingly christen him, looks like the houseguest from hell.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

To anyone wishing to look their best – the flaws of the flesh concealed – she must have seemed disobligingly frank, though only if one believed in the body as the soul's representative.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

As we had to travel on Sunday, we requested the driver to stop at some village where we could assist at Mass. This he very disobligingly refused to do.

From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous

Flora blushed, and pouted for a moment, then beckoned to Little Ugly, who disobligingly suggested that the grass would be wet.

From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Abbot, Anne Wales

It disobligingly kept its balance, however, and refused to upset.

From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)