[ UK /dˌɪsɐvˈa‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪsəˈvaʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with
    Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
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How To Use disavow In A Sentence

  • So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
  • I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
  • Such disavowals always remind me of Henry Kissinger's line that when a state denies it intends to take a course of action, it is signalling to others that it has the capacity to take such action if it wishes.
  • The board disavowed the action of the executive.
  • Agreement may be achievable only by formulas so vague as to invite later disavowal or disagreement.
  • Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
  • As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
  • He's not going to 'disavow' it, whatever that means in this context. Is Bobby Jindal -- Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist -- An Exorcist?
  • Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
  • But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
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