disown
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Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“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
Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023
“Would you disown me, your honest and true Ophelia?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Nonetheless, Serpa eventually found himself sympathising with the character of Crowe - a washed-up musician who disowns his biggest album as "the sound of someone having his fingernails pulled out".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2018
Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017
He who to me in days gone by Vouchsafed a boon with honours high, Dares now, a king, his word regret, And caitiff-like disowns the debt.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
Her family tried to persuade her to come back, but when nothing came of it they disowned her, according to SK SOS.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 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
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
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
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
Supporting her now does not require disowning a single position.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
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
I knew the stories of many bad sons and daughters who had angered their parents to the point of the disowning curse.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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