Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a disobliging manner; churlishly.

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  • adverb So as to disoblige.

Etymologies

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disobliging +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • To anyone wishing to look their best – the flaws of the flesh concealed – she must have seemed disobligingly frank, though only if one believed in the body as the soul's representative.

    Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice 2010

  • Chad, and his then finding the young man so disobligingly and, at first, so bewilderingly not lost that a new issue altogether, in the connexion, prodigiously faces them, which has to be dealt with in a new light — promised as many calls on ingenuity and on the higher branches of the compositional art as one could possibly desire.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Norah sent a special gift -- a big case of indoor games for wet weather, with a splendid bagatelle board that made the battalion deeply envied by less fortunate neighbours: until a German shell disobligingly burst just above it, and reduced it to fragments.

    Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • An ambulance surgeon disobligingly arrived in time to save her life for once; but the second time she borrowed some carbolic acid, which is more expeditious than any ambulance surgeon.

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • If you missed the action, here's a brief recap: front row packs its finest winter purchases for four weeks of posing and, erm, working incredibly hard to meet those ever-more demanding deadlines; weather goes disobligingly haywire and stages a never-ending heatwave; front row forced to wear last summer's clothes.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph 2012

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