disown

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"We disown his actions and we disown what he has done in every single way."

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

“My family would disown me,” he told the network in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

In a time where I thought that my whole family would disown me, they didn’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

She had taken a job as a secretary and was living at home because her father had threatened to disown her if she moved out on her own.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

If the ships are falsely flagged or flagged to a country that disowns them, the tankers can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction while in international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

You can detect the traces of the predecessor in the inheritor, even if the inheritor disowns any knowledge of the inheritance.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2019

Nonetheless, Serpa eventually found himself sympathising with the character of Crowe - a washed-up musician who disowns his biggest album as "the sound of someone having his fingernails pulled out".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2018

Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017

The father disowns his son but at this moment the gate gives way and in rushes Harald, who is met by old Hartung.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley

It was an early and remarkable demonstration of Marsh’s working-class roots — a thing he never disowned — as well as his feminism.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

He has disowned his previous Merkelism; as prime minister, he now champions Canada’s emergence as an “energy superpower” helping to restabilize the world and, not incidentally, Canada’s internal politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But uncertainty surrounds the royal succession, with no public announcement of an heir to the current king -- among his seven children, four have been officially disowned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

I really understood these concepts as a person whose own father disowned her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

Despite their quarrels, there was a deep bond between her father and the brother he had once disowned.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The families of both Abu Shabab and Al-Astal issued statements disowning them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025

The Jewish Community of Guatemala has issued a statement disowning the sect, describing it as foreign to its own organisation.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

The trend is so pronounced that some Chinese activists have taken to making preemptive “if I lose my freedom” videos, disowning any future “confessions” they might be forced to make.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021

I heard women reveal to men that the children they’d raised were not theirs and elderly parents inform grown sons and daughters that they were disowning them.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat