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[syn: disobliging, uncooperative]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disobliging \Dis`o*bli"ging\, a.
1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating;
as, a disobliging person or act.
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2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] --Cov. of Tongue. --
Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disoblige \Dis`o*blige"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobliged; p.
pr. & vb. n. Disobliging.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F.
d['e]sobliger.]
1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to
offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to
displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating
to.
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Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends,
shall infallibly come to know the value of them by
having none when they shall most need them. --South.
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My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it
would not be very safe to disoblige. --Addison.
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2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]
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Absolving and disobliging from a more general
command for some just and reasonable cause.
--Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disobliging
adj 1: intentionally unaccommodating; "the action was not
offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging" [syn:
disobliging, uncooperative]