disobliging

How To Use disobliging In A Sentence

• But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
• She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
• An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.
• The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
• But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
• She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
• If they were not paid, however, mercenaries could prove disobliging, as the future Henry II discovered on his first expedition to England in 1147, when the troops he took with him failed him and fled.
• Why does everyone have to be so disobliging, just because it's Christmas?
• It's 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.
• The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times