disown

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Every now and then some disgruntled fan will publicly disown his favorite team, then invite rival teams to suggest why he should support them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

“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

Not only did he miss the opportunity to disown the offensive characterization of Burr; he raised the rhetorical stakes with his dismissive tone and gratuitously defiant counterthreat.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

He also excavates the star's psyche to reveal a vulnerable, anxious soul - who disowns his birth name, Farrokh Bulsara, but whose alter-ego only comes alive in the spotlight.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2018

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017

Full of horror Jacob curses and disowns his ten sons.

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

Even though no allegations had been proven against Mondal, his mother appeared to have disowned her son and refused to accept his body.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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

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

After her divorce, my grandmother's family essentially disowned her.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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 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

However, the charity insisted it was not "disowning Sir Winston" and said its former name was "confusing to people and did not explain what we do".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021

He gave his head a little dubious shake, as if disowning responsibility for what he was about to tell me.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson