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Definition of Disobliging
1. Adjective. Intentionally unaccommodating. "The action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging"
Definition of Disobliging
1. a. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.
Definition of Disobliging
1. Verb. (present participle of disoblige) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disobliging
1. disoblige [v] - See also: disoblige
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disobliging
Literary usage of Disobliging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"The three colored porters could not have been more disobliging if they had been
three fiends. So absurd are the regulations, that the gentleman in question ..."
2. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... ku-nka ku-lca-pala moto, he is disobliging, he does not want to go and get fire.
... disobliging ..."
3. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth by William Robertson (1856)
"He chose, for all these reasons, rather to run the risk of disobliging his new
ally the sultan, than, by an unseasonable adherence to the treaty with him, ..."
4. Dufief's Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man: Or, A New by Nicolas Gouin Dufief, L. Hargous, Manuel Torres (1811)
"disobliging. Descortés. Happy. feliz. Happy. Feliz. Unhappy. Infeliz. Unhappy.
... I never saw any person more disobliging. ..."
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