What's the difference between disoblige and disobliger?
Disoblige
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To release from obligation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is vital – so that PMs can feel free to say what they like, and even make disobliging remarks about colleagues.
(2) I take comfort that our shows have received disobliging reviews since our opening exhibition of Warhol, Judd, Twombly and Marden in 1985 .
(3) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
(4) Maurice Glasman , whom he made a peer, has gone rather quiet after making disobliging remarks about Miliband's leadership style.
(5) But he also described the Sunday Times profile as "a slightly disobliging piece but the worrying thing is the picture is both rather unpleasant and also entirely accurate, so there we go".
(6) The cables also reveal King was not the only source of disobliging remarks about the Tory leadership, according to Susman.
(7) Her husband was at the end of the table, which was perhaps lucky since I wrote a column in Punch magazine at the time, and had printed much amusing but disobliging information sent anonymously from the Ministry of Defence , of which he was then in charge.
(8) Marsh's main mistake in dealing with a prime minister who was paranoid about leaks was to make some disobliging comments about his fellow ministers to Joe Haines, unaware of the fact that the previous day Haines had left his job as a journalist to become the No 10 press spokesman.
(9) No longer constrained by coalition, he is also no longer protected by its conventions: from now on, the PM cannot explain his actions with a roll of his eyes, a shrug of the shoulders, and a disobliging reference to the Lib Dems.
(10) | Pass Notes Read more He said Trump had been “very gracious about Mrs May” but some of his advisers have long memories about disobliging things said by UK government ministers “There are some fences that need to be mended ... actually I could help with something very, very important,” he told LBC Radio.
(11) It is true that the Labour party that now presses this case once rigged the NHS rules in favour of private providers, and also that Mr Clegg, who is now charged with seeing to it that it prevails, has said disobliging things about the health service in the past.
(12) Occasionally inmates say something disobliging about the regime, before adding (with a long, pointed stare towards the prison guard): “But the staff have been brilliant.
(13) By way of a curiosity, finally, the most death threats I ever had over a single column came after I was disobliging about one of Manchester City’s erstwhile club suits, a Garry Cook, who amusingly (and quite unfathomably) aroused deep passions among a few fans.
(14) And there is a feeling of being part of an organisation that is unlikely to roll over and fold in response to a future disobliging report.
(15) Sure, the blog had resulted in disobliging headlines in the Daily Record calling for the sacking of dinner ladies.
Disobliger
Definition:
(n.) One who disobliges.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is vital – so that PMs can feel free to say what they like, and even make disobliging remarks about colleagues.
(2) I take comfort that our shows have received disobliging reviews since our opening exhibition of Warhol, Judd, Twombly and Marden in 1985 .
(3) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
(4) Maurice Glasman , whom he made a peer, has gone rather quiet after making disobliging remarks about Miliband's leadership style.
(5) But he also described the Sunday Times profile as "a slightly disobliging piece but the worrying thing is the picture is both rather unpleasant and also entirely accurate, so there we go".
(6) The cables also reveal King was not the only source of disobliging remarks about the Tory leadership, according to Susman.
(7) Her husband was at the end of the table, which was perhaps lucky since I wrote a column in Punch magazine at the time, and had printed much amusing but disobliging information sent anonymously from the Ministry of Defence , of which he was then in charge.
(8) Marsh's main mistake in dealing with a prime minister who was paranoid about leaks was to make some disobliging comments about his fellow ministers to Joe Haines, unaware of the fact that the previous day Haines had left his job as a journalist to become the No 10 press spokesman.
(9) No longer constrained by coalition, he is also no longer protected by its conventions: from now on, the PM cannot explain his actions with a roll of his eyes, a shrug of the shoulders, and a disobliging reference to the Lib Dems.
(10) | Pass Notes Read more He said Trump had been “very gracious about Mrs May” but some of his advisers have long memories about disobliging things said by UK government ministers “There are some fences that need to be mended ... actually I could help with something very, very important,” he told LBC Radio.
(11) It is true that the Labour party that now presses this case once rigged the NHS rules in favour of private providers, and also that Mr Clegg, who is now charged with seeing to it that it prevails, has said disobliging things about the health service in the past.
(12) Occasionally inmates say something disobliging about the regime, before adding (with a long, pointed stare towards the prison guard): “But the staff have been brilliant.
(13) By way of a curiosity, finally, the most death threats I ever had over a single column came after I was disobliging about one of Manchester City’s erstwhile club suits, a Garry Cook, who amusingly (and quite unfathomably) aroused deep passions among a few fans.
(14) And there is a feeling of being part of an organisation that is unlikely to roll over and fold in response to a future disobliging report.
(15) Sure, the blog had resulted in disobliging headlines in the Daily Record calling for the sacking of dinner ladies.