Sentence examples for disoblige from inspiring English sources

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disoblige

verb

Not to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.

  • Sorry to disoblige everybody

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Last week, Mensch was stressing the inconvenience, to hard-pressed mothers in particular, of people disruptively going on strike over pensions, there being a presumption that no striker inconsiderate enough to disoblige someone like Louise Mensch might herself be a mother.

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I don't want to say anything disobliging about Nigel Farage or about people in Ukip, but I've got no appetite, interest or inclination towards doing a deal with anyone".

After I had written a disobliging piece about David Hare, he told me the only redeeming aspect of the experience had been Jane's picture and how crushed he was later to meet her and discover she regarded it as one of her worst.

Before I delivered my speech, he was very courteous to me and yet I repaid him by being disobliging.

There have already been convictions of military personnel in 890 cases of what has become known in Colombia as "false positives"—dead civilians falsely presented as guerrillas killed in combat.In this section A tale of two prisoners Cooking up a business cluster Pricing power General exit ReprintsMr Santos said General Barrero was fired for "disrespectful and disobliging" comments.

Disobliging fly-on-the-wall stories come from diverse sources, though you wonder about the motives of a former (and bitter) husband, who spilled a lot of beans to Mr Byron.

The Christmas break was marked by fresh headlines about hypocrisy, after the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper, secretly recorded Liberal Democrat ministers saying mildly disobliging things about their Tory coalition partners.In this section There is an alternative After the deluge, the pinch Precious but precarious A plague on their House ReprintsThe result is corrosive cynicism.

Set design takes the place of social imagination and "the imaginary village is designed as an escape into the good old days, a time when many Americans believed that life was simple and safe, and townspeople knew and trusted each other".The authors of "Suburban Nation" would certainly not accept this disobliging precis of their movement to put an end to suburban sprawl.

It's the sort of thing you can only do if you're self-confident about your looks, though one disobliging online commentator did say that his first thought was that this was what TV presenters look like without slap; shame on him.

The band's original lead singer, Ali Azmat, is now a judge on "Pakistan Idol," where he has the show's disobliging, Simon Cowell role — one that his former bandmate regards as not much of a stretch.

Grodin, widely admired for his disobliging performances on late-night talk shows, once had dinner with Johnny Carson, who asked if he'd join him on an African safari.

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