Thesaurus / cancel
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Polls suggest that a lot of voters currently don’t know what cancel culture is — and that’s true even among Republicans, despite the party’s elites talking about cancel culture nonstop.
WHY ATTACKING ‘CANCEL CULTURE’ AND ‘WOKE’ PEOPLE IS BECOMING THE GOP’S NEW POLITICAL STRATEGYPERRY BACON JR. (PERRY.BACON@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)MARCH 17, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
What we now call cancel culture is the contentious nature of a free society wrestling with the respectable parameters of public speech.
ANTI-BDS LAWS AN AFFRONT TO FREE SPEECHKHELIL BOUARROUJFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON BLADE
A lease made by a minor is not void, but he may avoid or cancel it by some positive act.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
Does a debtor who turns over a note to his creditor in payment, thereby cancel the debt?
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
Either of the parties might cancel the bond, but only after a formal and public notice of his intentions.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTON
Mendelssohn wanted to cancel the excommunication on the ground that the church has no rights in civil matters.
SOLOMON MAIMON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.SOLOMON MAIMON
The Law does not cancel the promise, but faith in the promised Christ cancels the Law.
COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSMARTIN LUTHER
If you bring back a good report, perhaps we can cancel out certain—unfortunate items in your record.
DERELICTALAN EDWARD NOURSE
Their delinquency, it is true, does not cancel hers, but it offers some slight degree of extenuation.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EAST
Charles had one great virtue which seems to us at times to cancel most of his vices—a fine sense of humour.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGE
WORDS RELATED TO CANCEL
- abate
- absolve
- alleviate
- amnesty
- cancel
- condone
- decrease
- defer
- delay
- desist
- diminish
- dwindle
- ease up
- excuse
- exonerate
- fall away
- forbear
- forgive
- halt
- hold off
- hold up
- intermit
- mitigate
- moderate
- modify
- modulate
- pardon
- prorogue
- put off
- reduce
- relax
- release
- repeal
- reprieve
- rescind
- respite
- shelve
- sink
- slack
- slacken
- soften
- stay
- suspend
- wane
- weaken
- abate
- absolve
- alleviate
- amnesty
- cancel
- condone
- decrease
- defer
- delay
- desist
- diminish
- dwindle
- ease up
- excuse
- exonerate
- fall away
- forbear
- forgive
- halt
- hold off
- hold up
- intermit
- mitigate
- moderate
- modify
- modulate
- pardon
- prorogue
- put off
- reduce
- relax
- release
- repeal
- reprieve
- rescind
- respite
- shelve
- sink
- slack
- slacken
- soften
- stay
- suspend
- wane
- weaken
- abjure
- back
- back down
- back off
- back out of
- call off
- cancel
- change one's mind
- countermand
- deny
- disavow
- disclaim
- disown
- draw in
- eat one's words
- eliminate
- exclude
- fall back
- forget it
- forswear
- go back on
- have change of heart
- nig
- pull back
- pull in
- recall
- recant
- recede
- reel in
- renege
- renounce
- repeal
- repudiate
- rescind
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrograde
- reverse
- revoke
- rule out
- sheathe
- suspend
- take back
- take in
- unsay
- welsh
- withdraw
- abjure
- back
- back down
- back off
- back out of
- call off
- cancel
- change one's mind
- countermand
- deny
- disavow
- disclaim
- disown
- draw in
- eat one's words
- eliminate
- exclude
- fall back
- forget it
- forswear
- go back on
- have change of heart
- nig
- pull back
- pull in
- recall
- recant
- recede
- reel in
- renege
- renounce
- repeal
- repudiate
- rescind
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrograde
- reverse
- revoke
- rule out
- sheathe
- suspend
- take back
- take in
- unsay
- welsh
- withdraw
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.