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disobliging adjective [ dɪsəˈblʌɪdʒɪŋ ]

• deliberately unhelpful; uncooperative.
• "I think you're simply being disobliging"
Similar: unhelpful, uncooperative, unaccommodating, unamenable, unyielding, inflexible, uncompromising, unreasonable, awkward, difficult, obstructive, contrary, perverse, discourteous, uncivil, unfriendly, unsympathetic,
Opposite: helpful, civil,

disoblige verb

• offend (someone) by not acting in accordance with their wishes.
• "one didn't disoblige them if one could help it"
Origin: late 16th century (in the sense ‘release from an obligation’): from French désobliger, based on Latin obligare ‘oblige’.


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