(v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can’t believe it was disallowed,” Bale admitted.
(2) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(3) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(4) The national football team were on the verge of a 1974 World Cup place and controversially finished second to Haiti, after losing 2-1 despite scoring five goals – four of which were disallowed – against the hosts in a qualifying tournament staged by the Haitians.
(5) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(6) Labor and the Greens used their combined majority in the upper house to pass a disallowance motion against the government’s “cruel” TPV regulations.
(7) "As frustrating as these disallowed goals have been for a true US football fan, the call in the Slovenia game has been all the talk in the US, where it's well known the public couldn't care less about football," reports Chris Roberts.
(8) It is also hypothesized that heat treatment may produce alterations in Ia molecules which specifically disallow transduction of the proliferation signal to T cells.
(9) Two minutes later Duncan Watmore had a goal disallowed, even though Nathan Aké appeared to have played him onside, and two minutes after that N’Doye was denied a fine chance by Prödl’s last-ditch challenge.
(10) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
(11) When Haghighi dropped one five minutes later he had been fouled by Obi Mikel and Ahmed Musa’s “goal” was disallowed.
(12) Prescribers disallowed generics on 32% of all eligible prescription orders in 1979 and on 42% in 1987.
(13) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(14) The clerk said the Senate had passed a motion in 1931 urging the governor general to refuse to approve regulations in the current session that were the same in substance as regulations already disallowed by the Senate, and a motion in 1914 asking the governor general to submit six constitution alteration proposals to the people even though they had not been passed by the House of Representatives.
(15) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(16) The European side had two goals disallowed and wound up losing on penalties.
(17) In September, the high court disallowed the government’s attempt to force all asylum seekers on to temporary protection.
(18) "They can argue about the decision, but it was never a goal and therefore cannot have been disallowed."
(19) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
(20) Four factors influencing the scores are isolated: the position of the primary stress, the awareness of rhythmic patterns, a tendency to assign prominence to the initial syllable and a segmental factor which disallows prominence on syllables with schwa.
Untrue
Definition:
(a.) Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue.
(a.) Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal.
(adv.) Untruly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(2) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(3) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(4) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
(5) He said the allegations made in Iran's media are based on fabricated contents or fake accounts and are untrue.
(6) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
(7) The palace initially stated that “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors” by the duke was “categorically untrue”.
(8) Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Epstein, has branded claims made against her as “untrue” and “obvious lies” after she was reportedly named in the US court papers by the woman.
(9) And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that’s a very important thing.” But if the president says something that cannot be proved or is demonstrably untrue, doesn’t that devalue his own currency, Carlson asked a second time.
(10) Let’s stop this conversation right now.” The Qatari government says the figure used by Montague that 1,200 migrant workers have died in Qatar since it was awarded the World Cup in 2010 is categorically untrue.
(11) Flynn said he had not discussed lifting US sanctions on Russia with Sergei Kislyak, Moscow’s US ambassador, but later admitted this was untrue.
(12) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
(13) Some of it may prove to be true but the passage of time will show much is untrue.” In response to claims of infighting and comparison’s with Wolf Hall, a spokesman for the prince added: “Clarence House employs over 100 hardworking professionals, many of whom have been there for decades and whose work and dedication is appreciated by their royal highnesses.” The row over the book comes amid growing scrutiny of Prince Charles’s ambitions for his kingship.
(14) Khan said the rumours were "untrue and upsetting" – although they remain in circulation on Twitter.
(15) Not everything in the paperwork for Roldugin’s account was untrue.
(16) Three years later the House of Lords decided to allow the media to plead the Reynolds defence - which meant newspapers could print untrue and defamatory information if they could prove it was in the public interest to publish it and that it was the product of responsible journalism.
(17) Going with what seems a reasonable assumption – that Scotland can be successful either independent or in a federal Britain – we are left with a leap of faith in one direction or the other, based on whose utopian vision of our future is most likely to be untrue.
(18) The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue.
(19) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
(20) On Sunday, Leslee Dart, a publicist for Allen, 78, said: Mr Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful.