unobliging
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
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
Says Balzac of the habitant: "...He is a listless and unobliging individual."
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
A good many minor people—hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like—will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
