disoblige
English
Etymology
From French désobliger
Verb
disoblige (third-person singular simple present disobliges, present participle disobliging, simple past and past participle disobliged)
- (Britain) Not 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.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 2:
- 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.
- (Britain) To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.
Antonyms
- oblige