(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.
Oblige
Definition:
(v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.
(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.
(v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(5) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
(6) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
(7) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
(8) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(9) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
(10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(12) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
(13) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
(15) These species are all obligately anaerobic, asaccharolytic, and generally nonreactive, and they grow poorly and slowly on media commonly used to isolate anaerobic bacteria.
(16) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
(17) In the present report we summarize our data on 144 obligate female carriers.
(18) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(19) No serious side effects were reported and none of the patients was obliged to terminate treatment because of side effects.
(20) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.