disoblige
verb (used with object)
to refuse or neglect to oblige; act contrary to the desire or convenience of; fail to accommodate.
disobligingly
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a word derived from
disoblige.
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
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 Anne Wales Abbot
It disobligingly kept its balance, however, and refused to upset.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
My dear Louis, The postal guide tells me, disobligingly, that there is no mail to you via San Francisco this month and that I must confide my few lines to the precarious and perfidious Hamburg.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
