as in troubled
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disobliged
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But people all over the country are increasingly troubled by our government’s lack of fairness and due process and want to do something about it.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Though he was initially troubled to find his image being used on Sora 2, the implementation of new guardrails around consent seem to have assuaged his concerns.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
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Firefighters employed a blanket containing a mixture of foam and water, because of fuel leaking on the ground, to put out the fire, the Daily Herald reported, adding there was no damage to the mall’s interior or nearby structures.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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While Searchlight has not put out an official logline for the feature, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the story is described as a love letter to the music of the movies and the people who make it.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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But while lawmakers and watchdog groups weighed legal objections and the general public debated the pros and cons of the pending ballroom, social-media users turned demolition into content.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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The mysterious brown-eyed woman was relatively short, between 5 feet, 2 inches, and 5 feet, 5 inches, and weighed between 110 and 120 pounds at the time of her death, officials said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Berwald isn't alone in being bothered by misbehaving kids at breweries.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Lehrer — who has maintained his innocence to Rolling Stone claimed he wasn’t bothered by the road ordeal — has been locked away in Dominica State Prison for over two years now.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
26 Oct. 2025
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Invisible asbestos fibers can become airborne whenever materials containing asbestos are disturbed during demolition, renovation, or even routine maintenance.—
Dr. Mark Abdelmalek,
ABC News,
30 Oct. 2025
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But the literal definition of resilience is the ability of a system to return to its original baseline after being disturbed.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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The system outage came a day after Amazon Web Services experienced issues of its own and inconvenienced millions of people around the world.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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How often have you been inconvenienced or downright victimized by cybercrime?—
Rick Bennett,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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If done right, these assurances would improve Taiwan’s prospects of preserving self-rule while restraining its leadership from making political statements that upset the status quo.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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Even though moral victories are for losers, the only loss Mike McDaniel’s team should lower its head in shame about was that 31-6 Cleveland loss two weeks ago, but the Dolphins responded by upsetting the Atlanta Falcons last week.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Disobliged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disobliged. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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