Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unwillingness to oblige; want of readiness to please or accommodate.
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Examples
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And I felt such a detestation of these broad-hatted women in the carriage with me, whose disobligingness had been the cause of my flurry.
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The more one studies these faces the more like an allegory they become of the Bad Girl and the Good Girl — the girl who cannot help herself in her grumpy disobligingness and the girl who is always happy to do what she's told — and, taking the allegory to another level, of human doubleness, of the two selves we conceptualize ourselves as being host to: the inner self of genuinely felt negativity, doubt, and aggression and the outer self of assumed benignity and niceness.
Aristocrats Malcolm, Janet 1996
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The laziness and disobligingness of the girls in this store is really getting beyond endurance. "
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