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disowning

[ UK /dɪsˈə‍ʊnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. refusal to acknowledge as one's own

How To Use disowning In A Sentence

  • S. troop positions in the other. Surely there are better, less insinuating ways to cover up or apologize for a drunken photo than legally disowning your name.
  • I couldn't "disown" Wright without disowning half my family, most of my friends, 90% of my acquaintences and almost all public figures who have ever spoken with their conscious or unconscious fears and prejudices and reactions giving voice to painful personal perspectives. Obama: Pleeze Don't Throw Me In the Briar Patch...
  • Recently we have been told how he and Sophie were now shot of each other with residual bitterness on both sides, with her predictably now disowning all previous suggestions he was innocent of his drugs test or had drinks spiked.
  • In one of his books, he writes, "For the other 95 percent of the world's population, conversion to Jesus Christ often means disowning, disinheritance, expulsion, arrest, and even death. Walid Zafar: Ergun Caner, Ex-Muslim Evangelical Leader, Exposed As Fake
  • ‘If I did I would be disowning my family,’ she shuddered obviously thinking of the consequences.
  • Newton learned to exploit the commercial press by secretly publishing his works and disowning them as piracies.
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