disoblige
verb
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verb
Etymology: From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.
- 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.”
“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.”
- To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.