Definition of unobliging in English:
unobliging
adjective ʌnəˈblʌɪdʒɪŋˌənəˈblaɪdʒɪŋ
Not helpful or cooperative.
Example sentencesExamples
- Your unconscious will see to it that you forget the book, but you don't wish to appear unobliging and will therefore do everything not to forget it.
- One thing is certain, the Fed is now playing a very weak hand, and markets have an unobliging way of exposing and punishing weak hands.
- In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
- I'm terribly sorry your father and I have been so unobliging, Eleanor, in not perishing in a more timely manner.
- Amar and his friends tried their best to turn the area into a dance floor, inviting an unobliging audience with some neat hip-hop moves.
- Not only that: he is an unobliging historian, being thin on context and causes.
- The Epidamnians in 435 asked Delphi whether they should transfer their allegiance from their unobliging mother-city Corcyra to Corcyra's own mother-city Corinth.
Definition of unobliging in US English:
unobliging
adjectiveˌənəˈblījiNGˌənəˈblaɪdʒɪŋ
Not helpful or cooperative.
Example sentencesExamples
- Amar and his friends tried their best to turn the area into a dance floor, inviting an unobliging audience with some neat hip-hop moves.
- Your unconscious will see to it that you forget the book, but you don't wish to appear unobliging and will therefore do everything not to forget it.
- In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
- I'm terribly sorry your father and I have been so unobliging, Eleanor, in not perishing in a more timely manner.
- One thing is certain, the Fed is now playing a very weak hand, and markets have an unobliging way of exposing and punishing weak hands.
- Not only that: he is an unobliging historian, being thin on context and causes.
- The Epidamnians in 435 asked Delphi whether they should transfer their allegiance from their unobliging mother-city Corcyra to Corcyra's own mother-city Corinth.