A man cannot bear to be called stingy or disobliging.
He ate heartily of it, wondering at the same time why the men had been so disobliging about it at first.
He judged him to be disobliging.
The old man mumbled something disobliging.
They were all so calm and businesslike that it would have seemed disobliging and absurd to make difficulties.
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The amendment has been described as a wrecking amendment, a dilatory amendment, and various otherdisobligingremarks of this kind.
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Perhaps the choice reflects a certain degree of irritation with some of thedisobligingcomments made by other newspapers about this event.
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I do not wish to be in any waydisobligingto them, but we have to face some facts.
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I am sorry to be sodisobligingto my noble friend.
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I should like to ask my noble friend what is again adisobligingquestion.
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I am not usually asdisobligingto her as she is insisting on being to me.
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