Meanings
present singular third person disobliges · participle present disobliging · participle past disobliged · past disobliged
- UKto be unwilling to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
Sorry to disoblige everybody; I know you were depending on me to bring a good weather forecast for our fête, but it is going to rain.
1 more example
But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2 - UKTo offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbto cause inconvenience or discomfort to
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Origin
- Middle Frenchdesobliger
- Englishdisoblige
From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
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