disoblige
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French désobliger
Verb
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- (British) 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.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 2:
- 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.
- (British) To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.