disoblige
verbEtymology
From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
- borrowed from desobliger
Definitions
to be unwilling to oblige
to 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.
- 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.
To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
The neighborhood
- antonymoblige
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for disoblige. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA