Many thanks for contributions so far. I am particularly glad to be reminded of 'ribald', a rather delightfully old-fashioned tut-tut tch-tch sort of word; appropriate for, e.g., the contents of D'Urfey's 'Wit & Mirth; or Pills To Purge Melancholy'.

Has anyone come across the 'disobliging' use from anyone other than Bert Lloyd, or using it as a conscious influence from him as I tend to use it? I find it rather a charming & whimsical word for the purpose; & wonder if Bert invented it, or if it is some sort of Suffolk dialect [he was a Suffolk man originally]. Always meant to ask him but never got around ... tho how much one could, in view of some recent threads about his habits of invention/adaptation/tradition·claiming, have relied on whatever answer he might have given is open to question.

Meanwhile — please keep 'em coming...