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disobliging

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verb

present participle of disoblige

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disobliging
Adjective
  • Something that’s annoying, inefficient, or consistently painful.
    Darpan Munjal, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • The car inches along, slowly filling the air with the hope of a different future, carried on tiny — albeit annoying — wings.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 July 2025
Verb
  • Rodin Cars The big idea behind Rodin is to build cars without bothering about vehicle regulations – in stark contrast to F1 cars, which are subject to several rules around how they're put together.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The city and state have also been ramping up efforts to engage troubled vagrants sleeping and sometimes bothering straphangers, connecting them with services and shelter and potentially involuntary treatment.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • People will likely find this irritating and exasperating, but the friction created will be worth the outcome, consisting of hopefully preventing people from being lulled into thinking the AI is divine.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • If certain emulsifiers are especially gentle on the gut, the food industry could use them to replace the ones that might be more irritating.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Truly pocket sized and weighing just 165g, FiiO says this is the ideal travel companion thanks to 12 hours of battery life and a two-hour fast-charge mode.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • This 2,000-tonne contraption would be lowered on a string of pipe weighing 2,000 tonnes, and grapple the wreck weighing 4,000 tonnes.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Remove confusing policies and anything else that is inconvenient for the customer.
    Shep Hyken, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • So this film features the character’s son Slim Peterson (Lavell Crawford), who, like his father, sports a prosthetic hand that has the inconvenient propensity for falling off.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Any company found to be frustrating the cancellation process could face significant fines—perhaps more than $50,000 per violation.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2025
  • According to the survey, 58% of Texas Rangers fans have left games early due to frustrating wait times, good for third among all 30 MLB fan bases.
    Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • The house was a little awkward and needed some work, including in the living room, which had a mix of original wood flooring and vinyl.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 24 July 2025
  • Once Mercury goes direct on Aug. 11, the awkward conversations or delays with friends or teammates start to smooth out.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • Don’t come over here disturbing my peace if mahogany queens aren’t your preferred type.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Crimping is the process of severing a crop at the base and laying it over to create a decomposing thatch/mulch layer for the garden without disturbing the soil.
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Disobliging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disobliging. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.

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