disown

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

“His view is if it’s good for him at that moment, he’ll do it, and then if something bad happens, he’ll disown any responsibility for it,” the former governor said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023

As a second-generation Scientologist, Jen B. said she thought her friends and parents would disown her if she reported Masterson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

We can navigate the flock freely, with the ability to protect or disown as we see fit.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

When Guida comes home alone, without her sailor but great with child, she is greeted with fury by her father, who disowns her, while her mother cowers in the background.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2019

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017

The new perpetual secretary of the Academie disowns the Druon changes.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2016

And the man that could succor her enemies now, Even though on her soil he were born, Is so base, so inhuman, so false and so vile, That Virginia disowns him with scorn!

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous

The King has five sons, but four by his second marriage were disowned in 1996 and have lived since then with their mother in the US.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

About 10 years ago, when he first wanted to go public with the truth, his mother disowned him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

In her memoir, Erivo writes at length about her estrangement from her father, who disowned her when she was 16 after an argument in a London train station.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

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

One dreamed up an “interview” with Seabiscuit, in which the horse disowned his year- younger half-uncle, War Admiral.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

He was born in Los Angeles to a white American mother and a Japanese father, the latter effectively disowning him while he was still in the womb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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

Supporting her now does not require disowning a single position.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022

Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver