as in to bother
to cause discomfort to or trouble for
didn't want to disoblige her relatives by spending the night at their place
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The acting didn’t bother me, but the directing did.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025 -
If the odds of winning the lottery are so low, why do people bother playing?—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The spectacle troubled some of Britain’s most prominent legal authorities.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Obviously, it's been troubled since mortgage rates went up.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 265 pounds.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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At least 16 people were arrested for allegedly crowding, obstructing and incommoding another person and one was arrested for alleged defacement during a planned act of civil disobedience.—
Tal Axelrod,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2023
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All were booked on charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding at the offices.—
Zachary Halaschak,
Washington Examiner,
16 Jan. 2020
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen were similarly discommoded at mealtime in public settings.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Sep. 2019
Verb
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Be patient and calm, Work zones are not there to inconvenience you.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Although the subsequent road closures inconvenienced a small, vocal minority – among them DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock ‒ most attendees happily splashed through the mud until the roads dried up.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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Two players take on the roles of a brother and sister who are searching for their missing buddies on an island inhabited by some rather disturbing monsters.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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These conditions can make fires spread more easily and be more difficult to put out.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The company has put out two updates in recent months to try and reverse that behavior.—
Avital Pardo,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Disoblige.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disoblige. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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