(v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
(v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disowned by family and despised by public opinion, she is now in prison.
(2) I have disowned him Ibrohim Kurbonov The International Crisis Group also believe the situation in central Asia is rapidly deteriorating, as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan unites with Isis.
(3) Within hours of the judge Hans-Joachim Eckert publishing his summary of Garcia’s 430-page report, which effectively cleared Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 of serious wrongdoing and praised Blatter and the process, the US attorney had disowned it .
(4) So perhaps the most surprising thing about the Roberts affair is the speed and frankness with which his own bosses publicly disowned him.
(5) I've never posted a picture of my child on it and it transpires that was wise, because my best friend would have disowned me.
(6) While promising to investigate Henwood's comments, Ukip has declined to disown him outright, instead claiming the party was the victim of smear campaigns orchestrated by other parties alarmed at Ukip's success in the polls.
(7) He had also threatened to hang himself, and had been disowned by his mother and two sisters for being violent and aggressive.
(8) In April 1994, the Saudi government stripped Bin Laden of his citizenship and his family disowned his actions.
(9) In many cases tabloid newspapers published stories identifying men or women who were subsequently disowned by their family or assaulted in the street.
(10) Unusually, the BND’s analysis was disowned by the German government after the Saudis complained.
(11) The EGAF report has now been disowned by the original study's co-authors , the European Climate Foundation.
(12) Her plans were disowned by Cameron in the Commons when the pressure became too great, giving her the unlikely status of the first coalition Conservative martyr.
(13) These include (1) disownment and redirection of an intolerable experience to another, (2) manipulation of the recipient in an attempt to control, and (3) an induction of congruent responses in the recipient.
(14) Is Labour not letting us all down by not hounding Osborne, demanding details, making it plain that if the turkeys do vote for this Christmas, it will be the type that even Scrooge would disown?
(15) But when Parnell’s secret affair with Kitty O’Shea blew open in 1890, Gladstone disowned him – and the home rulers made the fatal mistake of sacking the charismatic Parnell in order to keep in with the Liberals.
(16) What if the claims made for neuroscience are so extreme that most neuroscientists would disown them?
(17) Farage disowned the entire 2010 Ukip manifesto – and not in the open manner of an honest politician admitting to past mistakes.
(18) But less than 24 hours after his comments disowning the book were published, a statement from Talese’s publisher Grove Press revealed a change of heart.
(19) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.
(20) Garcia has disowned Eckert’s summary of his 430-page report, which effectively cleared Russia and Qatar.
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.