obliging
adjective
willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating.
unobliging
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a word derived from
obliging.
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
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 Edmund Gosse
A good many minor people—hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like—will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
Because we have a lawyer for our trustee, who is most unobliging, and expensive.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various
