'Disobliging' definitions:
Definition of 'disobliging'
From: WordNet
adjective
Intentionally unaccommodating; "the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging" [syn: disobliging, uncooperative]
Definition of 'Disobliging'
From: GCIDE
- Disobliging \Dis`o*bli"ging\, a.
- 1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] --Cov. of Tongue. -- {Dis`o*bli"ging*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`o*bli"ging*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disobliging'
From: GCIDE
- Disoblige \Dis`o*blige"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disobliged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disobliging.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F. d['e]sobliger.]
- 1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. [1913 Webster]
- Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. --South. [1913 Webster]
- My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To release from obligation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. --Milton. [1913 Webster]