disown

Example Sentences

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“You don’t know me, fool / You disown me, cool,” Ice-T snarls in the 1988 hip-hop gang treatise “Colors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

“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

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