What's the difference between deny and repudiate?

Deny


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
  • (v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
  • (v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  • (v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (3) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
  • (4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
  • (7) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
  • (8) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
  • (9) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (10) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
  • (13) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (14) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
  • (15) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
  • (16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
  • (17) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
  • (18) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
  • (19) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
  • (20) It could bring down the prime minister, though he denies it.

Repudiate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
  • (v. t.) To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus the data were unable to repudiate earlier evidence regarding the significance of the private fee-for-service framework in predicting affective behavior.
  • (2) The first official repudiation of Stalinism came in Nikita Khrushchev's now celebrated speech to a closed session of the 1956 Communist party congress.
  • (3) On Monday, Trump, who leads opinion polls in the race to be the Republican nominee for president in an election in November next year, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States , in comments widely repudiated by other US politicians.
  • (4) Both of which the Australian government is slowly but surely repudiating.
  • (5) And for a country founded on the repudiation of history, they were all, of course, obsessed with the weight of the past.
  • (6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Thursday morning, Hilary Benn pays tribute to the RAF as UK airstrikes on Syria begin Unlike his father, Hilary did not repudiate the experience, though he is humble enough to acknowledge errors.
  • (8) Senators should insist that Comey explain his role during the Bush era and repudiate policies he endorsed on torture, indefinite detention, and illegal surveillance.
  • (9) Susan Collins announced she would not vote for Donald Trump on Monday, joining the few other Republican senators to repudiate the party’s nominee for president.
  • (10) Following weeks of angry internal debate about how to handle the issue, Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, on Friday issued a strongly worded complaint about "disturbing new tactics" and called on the Iranian government "to repudiate the actions of its officials".
  • (11) The Warner suit states: "Because of the repudiation, Warner has not entered into license agreements for online games and casino slot machines in connection with The Hobbit – a form of customary exploitation it previously had utilised in connection with the Lord of the Rings trilogy – which has harmed Warner both in the form of lost license revenue and also in decreased exposure for the Hobbit films."
  • (12) For these reasons we repudiate the view that organ sharing is now superfluous.
  • (13) For the primiparous, then infertile women because of hypopituitarism, the repudiation becomes often the only social way of life.
  • (14) On Tuesday he said he would issue an apology to the Chinese embassy and repudiate Palmer’s comments.
  • (15) This platform enabled us to win the confidence of the Greek people,” Varoufakis said, insisting that the logic of austerity had been repudiated by voters when the far-left Syriza party stormed to victory in Sunday’s election.
  • (16) 'An epochal change': what a Trump presidency means for the Asia Pacific region Read more Most explosive of all, the new US president has planted a trade war at the heart of his policies: a 45% tariff on imports from China and a repudiation of the Trans Pacific Partnership which was supposed to have been proof positive of America’s pivot to Asia.
  • (17) Medical personnel must carry out a whole complex of measures aimed at community involvement into dispensarization activities, promotion of population's readiness to follow doctor's indications and prescribed regimen and diet, to stick to a more active mode of life and to repudiate bad habits.
  • (18) The chances of the Greek public electing a government that repudiates the terms of the bailout is deemed to be high.
  • (19) In a calculated repudiation of the economic philosophy of Ed Miliband, who resigned in the wake of Labour’s devastating defeat at the polls last month, Leslie argues that during the election campaign the party failed to grasp the power of consumers.
  • (20) But some commentators regard Corbyn’s ascent and the defeat of “Blairite” candidates as a repudiation of his legacy and return to old Labour values.