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adjective

as in annoying
causing difficulty, discomfort, or annoyance a friend with the disobliging habit of never having the cash to pay his fair share of the restaurant check

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disobliging

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verb

present participle of disoblige
as in bothering
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 disobliging
  1. annoying
  2. bothering
  3. irritating
  4. weighing
  5. inconvenient
  6. troubling
  7. frustrating
  8. inconveniencing
Adjective
  • The Moon shifts our mood toward fairness and cooperation, making compromise less annoying than usual.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
  • After all, if my brothers could be annoying, affectionate, and self-aggrandizing all at once, why couldn’t a man in the history books?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Definition of annoying
Verb
  • Wasps are generally more interested in building their colony and finding food than in bothering people.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 17 July 2026
  • But after going ahead, England manager Thomas Tuchel tried to shut the back door by throwing on countless defenders and not bothering to attack Argentina anymore.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Definition of bothering
Adjective
  • Few workplace behaviors are as small, common and irritating as the message that goes unanswered.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Greenberg tried his best to ignore an irritating ankle injury that had plagued him the last couple of weeks and grimaced under the hazy sunlight as the pitcher, probably 20 or more years his junior, stared him down.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of irritating
Verb
  • But the caveat matters for readers who are weighing Tampa against cities with different political postures.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • The Canaveral Port Authority is weighing the future of the landmark overlooking Port Canaveral.
    — Jack Kennedy, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
Definition of weighing
Adjective
  • Now my own messy, inconvenient story had been absorbed and neutralized.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • Come what may—an inconvenient husband, a cholera epidemic—the novel asks, does love ever expire?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
Definition of inconvenient
Verb
  • Campbell said Moore wanted to discuss what was troubling her privately but never got the chance.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • This question of what happened to fishes immediately after the age of the dinosaurs kept troubling me.
    — Sanaa El-Sayed, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Definition of troubling
Adjective
  • Conversely, there are moments throughout Pompeii where the trail goes cold due to insufficient documentation from 2,000 years ago, frustrating Hiddleston in the process.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026
  • The recent weakness has been frustrating given the company's strong fundamentals.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of frustrating
Verb
  • Apprehensive about inconveniencing others by appointing Truss at Balmoral—a first in her 70-year reign—the monarch consulted her daughter the Princess Royal.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And the students liked being able to listen to the material repeatedly without inconveniencing a human reader.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
Definition of inconveniencing
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