disobliging

Example Sentences

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Granted, Sir Chris Bryant was almost as disobliging about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 15 years ago, as an opposition MP, when there were calls then for him to be sacked as the government's trade envoy.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The reviewers were disobliging and they included me.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2017

"You know, the great British portraitist. He was jealous of the prices she commanded and in his work Oriental Tales he was most disobliging about her. Said she was feeble and vulgar!"

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2015

Mr Poon's ancestors were dotted in random, disobliging clumps over the entire hillside, thus attesting to Wallace that key characteristics of that irksome family were transmitted beyond death itself.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2012

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling