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disobligingness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Unwillingness to oblige; want of readiness to please or accommodate.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • 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

  • The laziness and disobligingness of the girls in this store is really getting beyond endurance. "

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 1908

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