disoblige

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disoblige

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From Middle French desobliger. By surface analysis, dis- + oblige.

verb disobliges · disobliging · disobliged

  1. UK 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.
  2. UK To offend by an act of unkindness or incivility.

Opposite: oblige

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@misc{disoblige_2026,
  title = {disoblige},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disoblige},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}