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

As it was, she resolved to make one last effort to awaken her unobliging spouse to a belated sense of duty.

From Baby Mine by Mayo, Margaret

They set me down for an awkward young fellow, unobliging, and proud.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill- tempered and unobliging child.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund