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

Because we have a lawyer for our trustee, who is most unobliging, and expensive.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various

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

Says Balzac of the habitant: "...He is a listless and unobliging individual."

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche