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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disoblige \Dis'o*blige"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disobliged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disobliging}.] [Pref. dis- + oblige: cf. F. d['e]sobliger.]
1. 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.
Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. --South.
My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. --Addison.
2. To release from obligation. [Obs.]
Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disoblige
verb
1: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: {trouble}, {put out}, {inconvenience}, {discommode}, {incommode}, {bother}]
2: ignore someone's wishes [ant: {oblige}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "disoblige": affront, bother, call names, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discommode, dishonor, dump on, fleer at, flout, gibe at, give offense to, harm, humiliate, hurl a brickbat, impose upon, incommode, inconvenience, insult, jeer at, jibe at, mock, offend, outrage, put about, put down, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, scoff at, taunt, treat with indignity, trouble
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