disoblige

English

Verb

disoblige (third-person singular simple present disobliges, present participle disobliging, simple past and past participle disobliged)

1. (UK) Not 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.

   • between 1812 and 1814, Jane Austin, chapter 1, Mansfield Park:

     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.

Antonyms

• oblige