disobligingly

To anyone wishing to look their best – the flaws of the flesh concealed – she must have seemed disobligingly frank, though only if one believed in the body as the soul's representative.

Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice 2010

Chad, and his then finding the young man so disobligingly and, at first, so bewilderingly not lost that a new issue altogether, in the connexion, prodigiously faces them, which has to be dealt with in a new light — promised as many calls on ingenuity and on the higher branches of the compositional art as one could possibly desire.

The Ambassadors 2003

He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

He flung his little vessel about the combat area, raking Avenger with insignificant but probably infuriating blasts, and then disobligingly evading the response.

The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

Norah sent a special gift -- a big case of indoor games for wet weather, with a splendid bagatelle board that made the battalion deeply envied by less fortunate neighbours: until a German shell disobligingly burst just above it, and reduced it to fragments.

Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

An ambulance surgeon disobligingly arrived in time to save her life for once; but the second time she borrowed some carbolic acid, which is more expeditious than any ambulance surgeon.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

If you missed the action, here's a brief recap: front row packs its finest winter purchases for four weeks of posing and, erm, working incredibly hard to meet those ever-more demanding deadlines; weather goes disobligingly haywire and stages a never-ending heatwave; front row forced to wear last summer's clothes.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph 2012