Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not obliging; not disposed to please or to gratify the wishes of another; unaccommodating: as, a disobliging landlord.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating.
- adjective obsolete Displeasing; offensive.
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- verb Present participle of
disoblige .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intentionally unaccommodating
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Examples
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Irritated by "disobliging" criticism of the kamikaze mission,
WN.com - Articles related to 'Forbes': Woods first athlete with $1 billion in earnings 2009
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"It may seem 'disobliging' to you, but you know that is not my motive.
Katherine's Sheaves Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884
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Giles Terera's Caliban is no threat: merely disobliging: his "Ban Ban Caliban" riff is diminished by being ironically chanted by two of the clowns as if they were the Andrews Sisters; his rift with Prospero too chummily resolved.
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Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore.
A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011
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A rather disobliging vote of thanks from Mr Stuart Fraser pointed out that another firm that valued employee participation was Lehman Brothers, whose collapse started the present crisis.
Nick Clegg plays the John Lewis card among the City's 'have-yachts' | Simon Hoggart 2012
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He shifts in his seat, he shuffles bits of paper and his dark eyes flick around the room, occasionally alighting on a person who might once have said or written something disobliging about him.
Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia 2011
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It is true that the Labour party that now presses this case once rigged the NHS rules in favour of private providers, and also that Mr Clegg, who is now charged with seeing to it that it prevails, has said disobliging things about the health service in the past.
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(Most of it on days when Levin or Hannity or Hugh Hewitt or Limbaugh himself has had something especially disobliging to say about me.)
Sunday Reading 2009
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Lion Wharf Road seemed to offer a route to the water's edge, but a brown heritage signpost said there was no through route and I couldn't see how to get on to the disobliging path anyway.
Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens 2010
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Indeed, everyone can cite cases of knavish behaviour – the bloody-minded GP receptionist, a sullen council jobsworth or disobliging clock-watchers shutting down switchboards at 4. 55pm, regardless.
Loyal, public service merits more than this cold trashing 2010
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