DISOBLIGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disobliging mean? 

• DISOBLIGING (adjective)
  The adjective DISOBLIGING has 1 sense:

1. intentionally unaccommodating

  Familiarity information: DISOBLIGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISOBLIGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intentionally unaccommodating

Synonyms:

disobliging; uncooperative

Context example:

the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging

Similar:

unaccommodating; unobliging (not accommodating)

 Context examples 

Her heart instantaneously at ease on this point, she resolved to lose no time in particular examination of anything, as she greatly dreaded disobliging the general by any delay.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the consequence, which consequence was his dropping her arm almost every moment to cut off the heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and when Mary began to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to custom, in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had a momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You must decide for yourself, said Elizabeth; and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you by all means to refuse him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)