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Definition of disavow in English: disavowverb dɪsəˈvaʊˌdɪsəˈvaʊ [with object]Deny any responsibility or support for. the union leaders resisted pressure to disavow picket-line violence Example sentencesExamples - In light of my research into the Reagan administration's democracy promotion policies, I have long been concerned that conservatives would pay lip service to democratization while disavowing it in practice.
- As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
- The bottom line: both ABC News and the Washington Post are now disavowing any claim that the alleged ‘talking points memo’ was authored by a Republican, let alone that it was some kind of official Republican strategy memo.
- The child copes by disavowing her earlier German-Jewish identity by becoming English and changing her name to Evelyn.
- The least interesting aspect of this article is where it tautologically notes that Blair is disavowing such a connection.
- Trans Continental claims a Superior Court judge had approved the contract when it was signed - therefore, it cannot be disavowed now.
- The incoming chair has the opportunity to establish a new learning history with these faculty members by disavowing the relevance of the past issues and introducing new, achievable expectations.
- But it isn't just the hard right that's disavowing Wilson.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, its advocates are now increasingly disavowing any intention of adding intelligent design to science curricula.
- What's more, Clark added, ‘the administration's never disavowed this intent.’
- Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
- So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
- The keyhole supposedly provides a kind of voyeuristic pleasure in observing while being unobserved, but this pleasure is predicated on disavowing the possibility that the object of spectatorship is aware of your gaze.
- Wilson he was forced to lie and the diocese produces a signed statement disavowing his involvement in the letter.
- Many became ill and suffered permanent symptoms, but the government disavowed responsibility for them because they were civilians.
- The mainstream Mormon church has disavowed it.
- Well in that case, Mr Annan, you'd better start by disavowing yourself and your odious organisation.
- Murray isn't really backing off; she says that her remarks were ‘off the cuff,’ but hasn't disavowed them.
- I detect a David Lynchian coyness here - Lynch is famous for disavowing any complex or psychologized readings of his work.
- In the election of 1920, the nation chose to elevate Warren G. Harding and his gang of crooked friends to power, disavowing Wilson, the League, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Synonyms deny, disclaim, disown, wash one's hands of reject, repudiate contradict, rebut, abjure, renounce, forswear, eschew
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French desavouer. Definition of disavow in US English: disavowverbˌdisəˈvouˌdɪsəˈvaʊ [with object]Deny any responsibility or support for. he appears to be in denial of his own past, which he continually disavows Example sentencesExamples - The mainstream Mormon church has disavowed it.
- So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
- The bottom line: both ABC News and the Washington Post are now disavowing any claim that the alleged ‘talking points memo’ was authored by a Republican, let alone that it was some kind of official Republican strategy memo.
- Many became ill and suffered permanent symptoms, but the government disavowed responsibility for them because they were civilians.
- As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
- The child copes by disavowing her earlier German-Jewish identity by becoming English and changing her name to Evelyn.
- The keyhole supposedly provides a kind of voyeuristic pleasure in observing while being unobserved, but this pleasure is predicated on disavowing the possibility that the object of spectatorship is aware of your gaze.
- Trans Continental claims a Superior Court judge had approved the contract when it was signed - therefore, it cannot be disavowed now.
- The incoming chair has the opportunity to establish a new learning history with these faculty members by disavowing the relevance of the past issues and introducing new, achievable expectations.
- Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
- Murray isn't really backing off; she says that her remarks were ‘off the cuff,’ but hasn't disavowed them.
- I detect a David Lynchian coyness here - Lynch is famous for disavowing any complex or psychologized readings of his work.
- In light of my research into the Reagan administration's democracy promotion policies, I have long been concerned that conservatives would pay lip service to democratization while disavowing it in practice.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, its advocates are now increasingly disavowing any intention of adding intelligent design to science curricula.
- Wilson he was forced to lie and the diocese produces a signed statement disavowing his involvement in the letter.
- Well in that case, Mr Annan, you'd better start by disavowing yourself and your odious organisation.
- The least interesting aspect of this article is where it tautologically notes that Blair is disavowing such a connection.
- But it isn't just the hard right that's disavowing Wilson.
- In the election of 1920, the nation chose to elevate Warren G. Harding and his gang of crooked friends to power, disavowing Wilson, the League, and the Treaty of Versailles.
- What's more, Clark added, ‘the administration's never disavowed this intent.’
Synonyms deny, disclaim, disown, wash one's hands of
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French desavouer. |