disown

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

“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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023

Mom would disown me if she thought I even remotely took anyone’s side but hers.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

His mother recognizes him, but he disowns her, declaring her mad, and by strength of will he compels the poor mother to renounce him.

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

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

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

Dagwood Bumstead was the scion of a rich family that disowned him when he married Blondie, a flapper — forcing him to take an office job under the irascible J.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

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

They were, according to the book, disowned by their families, snubbed by their friends and ostracized from every society.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

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

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