What's the difference between disobliging and uncooperative?
Disobliging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disoblige
(a.) Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.
(a.) Displeasing; offensive.
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.
Uncooperative
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(2) Obstacles to successful treatment include an erratic schedule, mistrust of authority, and uncooperative or aggressive behavior.
(3) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(4) Conscious sedations were performed on 20 uncooperative 2-4-year old children.
(5) A method is described for obtaining consistently high-quality images during nonneurologic computed tomography of the severely ill and uncooperative patient using a neuromuscular blocker to induce apnea.
(6) Proficiency in the recognition and interpretation of these clinical symptoms, physical signs, laboratory data, ECGs, and radiographic findings is important when evaluating acutely ill, uncooperative, or unresponsive patients.
(7) Frequently, the uncooperative patient is labeled as having a poor or defiant attitude toward orthodontic treatment.
(8) The results showed a significant difference between DHEC and placebo with regard to total and partial scores of SCAG as well as to single items (mental alertness, recent memory, disorientation, anxiety, mood depression, emotional lability, motivation, uncooperativeness, fatigue, headache, tinnitus).
(9) The subjects of the investigation were 45 uncooperative patients who had difficulty in accepting regular dental treatment.
(10) From the outset, he was dealt a severe handicap: an uncooperative and reform-averse Senate.
(11) The use of this simple and reliable technique for recording the electroretinogram made it possible to include this investigation as a routine procedure without the need for sedation in infants and uncooperative children.
(12) Based on its use in unilateral family therapy with 68 spouses of uncooperative alcohol abusers, procedural guidelines, criteria for use, and two case examples from a crossover experimental dyad are described.
(13) Splenic Mchi, however, are neither uncooperative nor inhibitory when interacting with peritoneal T cells.
(14) Pediatric cancer patients often become anxious, agitated, combative, and uncooperative due to the pain or fear of pain during invasive procedures.
(15) At the present time they are the best objective non-invasive audiometric tests (versus subjective psychoacoustic examinations) for predicting hearing thresholds in infants and uncooperative patients.
(16) For those who had a depressive state and who became uncooperative, "conjoint" sessions with the patients and their family members (e.g.
(17) Riders are labeled as uncooperative, selfish, not team players – it must be the case, rider A has been in the sport four years and has moved teams each year.
(18) The incidence of 'uncooperativeness' and drug side-effects, and the proportion of participants who complied with and completed treatment also varied significantly from country to country.
(19) Contraindications for gastric lavage are similar to those for emesis except that it may be safer to use in obtunded, comatose, or uncooperative patients.
(20) The students spent a great proportion of their time examining the child, yet their findings were questionable particularly if the child was uncooperative.