disobliging

As any anonymous internet poster knows only too well, you can do a lot of damage to someone by writing disobliging comments about them.

"And now he is so disobliging," drawled Kara.

You are so disobliging!

"A disobliging woman, I thought."

"Alfred, madam, has been most disobliging."

"Merely disobliging, am I?

I particularly wished to show him the Bedford Coffee-house, but I did not think to find the people so very disobliging."

However great they were (and they were), they alone weren't what elevated it from just another funny-smelling old picture palace with a disobliging boiler.

His two older brothers, Geoffrey (Brian McHugh) and Randy (Sam Rockwell), are mostly disobliging.

Although pleased that the meeting she had requested three days ago would at last take place, she did not feel particularly happy about having to deal again with the laconic and disobliging admiral.

A rather disobliging vote of thanks from Mr Stuart Fraser pointed out that another firm that valued employee participation was Lehman Brothers, whose collapse started the present crisis.

"Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad."

The sound system played Bobby Vinton's hit Blue on Blue - possibly a reference to Blue Labour, the notion of Lord Glasman, who was so disobliging about Ed the other day.

They are your own children, for all love, your very flesh; and yet I could almost suppose, and not only from your referring to them as swabs, a disobliging term, that you were disappointed in them, merely for being girls.

Sowerby made no reply for some time but sat there biting his nails; it was clear to Stephen that the man regarded him as a rival, but his manner was so disobliging that Stephen did not undeceive him.

'Then, Colambre, you are very disobliging,' said Lady Clonbrony, with an expression of disappointment and displeasure; 'for your father says, if you don't marry Miss Broadhurst, we can't live in Lon'on another winter.'

He was the more disobliging because he and other members of the family believed that they now had proofs which surely would convince Napoleon that Josephine was faithless and would cause him to secure a divorce as soon as he returned from Italy.

His friendship with Muggeridge, whose "television personality" he found increasingly alienating, eventually foundered when the Sage of Robertsbridge made some disobliging remarks about Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1964), the sixth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time.