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
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 E. (Edith) Nesbit
I immediately settled to start an agency for this object—somewhat on the principle of ‘Lady Guides’—the full title being ‘The agency for supplying Brothers to brotherless girls, or those with unobliging brothers.’
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
They set me down for an awkward young fellow, unobliging, and proud.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
