Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To refuse or neglect to act in accord with the wishes of.
- transitive verb To inconvenience.
- transitive verb To give offense to; affront.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To refuse or neglect to oblige; act contrary to the desire or convenience of; fail to accommodate.
- To incommode; put to inconvenience.
- To release from obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
- transitive verb obsolete To release from obligation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK Not to
oblige ; todisappoint , toinconvenience , not tocooperate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb ignore someone's wishes
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
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Examples
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On the other hand, Talleyrand was a dangerous man to disoblige.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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On the other hand, Talleyrand was a dangerous man to disoblige.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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On the other hand, Talleyrand was a dangerous man to disoblige.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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We are to leave early in the morning, to catch as much as we can of the short winter daylight, and I have to be ready and waiting in the stable yard so as not to disoblige my new family and my silent husband-to-be.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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Mandlebert – to resist his advice – to take the very measures I have promised to forbear – to disoblige, to slight, to behave to him even offensively! my uncle himself, lenient, kind, indulgent as he is, my uncle himself has been prevailed with to inflict upon me this terrible injunction. '
Camilla 2008
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Not caring to disoblige him, he then, without speaking, slowly and unwillingly moved forwards.
Camilla 2008
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Innocence; for we had never study'd the Documents of Complaisance, nor knew we how to flatter any Body's Fancy, and disoblige our own.
Exilius 2008
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We will suppose, that his Thoughts met with great Obstacles on the other side, to think how he should ruine a vertuous young Gentlewoman, expose the Child he had by her arm all her Relations with Revenge, and disoblige his own Family.
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Places they are more stupendious, yet not so as to disoblige the Eye with any rude Assent, or disagreeable Sterility; for they are well garnish'd with Intervals of Woods, Corn, and some Pasturage.
Exilius 2008
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Misfortunes, nor the Scorns of your Family: I will not cause you to disoblige the best of Fathers, nor myself become the Odium of Mankind.
Exilius 2008
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