How To Use Disobliging In A Sentence

  • But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is true that the Labour party that now presses this case once rigged the NHS rules in favour of private providers, and also that Mr Clegg, who is now charged with seeing to it that it prevails, has said disobliging things about the health service in the past. Health service: the concession that counts
  • Famously, Connolly is protected by one of the most disobliging management teams in show business, a company with an answerphone message that might as well be the single word ‘No‘.
  • Don't forget, we had to request these documents through the disobliging chief auditor.
  • T bank of colorado how downstage or devalued manhunt is in clenched http if his actinozoa peruvian in a disobliging zeppo of galega and venturous. Rational Review
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  • Asked in Europe for her name at airport immigration, for instance, she was fiercely disobliging.
  • Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
  • She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
  • Sorry to be so disobliging , but I have no money to lend you.
  • She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
  • The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • I only got my own son to leave home by writing a disobliging article about it in a newspaper, but that's not a remedy open to everyone.
  • She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
  • You can say what you like about the prime minister - and I have said, and will continue to say, some disobliging things - but he has participated in the toppling of two tyrants.
  • He shifts in his seat, he shuffles bits of paper and his dark eyes flick around the room, occasionally alighting on a person who might once have said or written something disobliging about him. Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia
  • Some like feisty, noisy, slightly aggressive animals but others, like me, prefer inert but cheerfully disobliging ones.
  • Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore. A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
  • Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
  • The figure tramped through the alleys, forgoing the masses of disobliging people for the emptiness of the slums.
  • I made a disobliging reference to Pinter in my piece, and then discovered before the deadline that the speech had actually been delivered the day before.
  • Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive. Clarissa Harlowe
  • She takes hold of my hand, and having roll’d up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss’d the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
  • Reasonable people will view that as disobliging at worst. Times, Sunday Times
  • the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging
  • She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
  • An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.
  • The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
  • If they were not paid, however, mercenaries could prove disobliging, as the future Henry II discovered on his first expedition to England in 1147, when the troops he took with him failed him and fled.
  • Why does everyone have to be so disobliging, just because it's Christmas?
  • It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
  • The rest of us wouldn't dare to be so disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • Irritated by "disobliging" criticism of the kamikaze mission, WN.com - Articles related to 'Forbes': Woods first athlete with $1 billion in earnings
  • Giles Terera's Caliban is no threat: merely disobliging: his "Ban Ban Caliban" riff is diminished by being ironically chanted by two of the clowns as if they were the Andrews Sisters; his rift with Prospero too chummily resolved. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
  • But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, everyone can cite cases of knavish behaviour – the bloody-minded GP receptionist, a sullen council jobsworth or disobliging clock-watchers shutting down switchboards at 4. 55pm, regardless. Loyal, public service merits more than this cold trashing
  • It may seem 'disobliging' to you, but you know that is not my motive. Katherine's Sheaves
  • Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc.
  • That is very disobliging of the honourable Gentleman, who was being kind to me earlier.
  • Last year Hitchens told an English interviewer that he is ready to remember even more disobliging material from that lunch, in the event that Blumenthal takes after him in the upcoming memoir.
  • Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore. A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch
  • Lion Wharf Road seemed to offer a route to the water's edge, but a brown heritage signpost said there was no through route and I couldn't see how to get on to the disobliging path anyway. Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens
  • (Most of it on days when Levin or Hannity or Hugh Hewitt or Limbaugh himself has had something especially disobliging to say about me.) Sunday Reading
  • A rather disobliging vote of thanks from Mr Stuart Fraser pointed out that another firm that valued employee participation was Lehman Brothers, whose collapse started the present crisis. Nick Clegg plays the John Lewis card among the City's 'have-yachts' | Simon Hoggart
  • Where the speech should have recognised my input, there would sometimes be a disobliging reference to 18 wasted years.

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