disoblige

Example Sentences

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Instead, it added, he had "portrayed himself as a victim of a conspiracy… and continued to refer to the complainants in a disobliging and sometimes offensive manner".

From BBC

Adolescence was not the fearful event it is now, when our innocent, adoring, clear-skinned children become “disobliging, somewhat deranged and kind of disgusting.”

From New York Times

Powell was no happier when he was targeted in “gossipy and disobligingly frank extracts” of Waugh’s diaries, published posthumously.

From New York Times

I sometimes wonder what it is that makes her get up in the morning and face the disobliging headlines and cartoons, and what it is is a very old-fashioned sense of public service.

From The Guardian

“Fallen Kingdom” finds workers racing to save disobliging dinosaurs from an erupting volcano.

From New York Times