disown

Example Sentences

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"We disown his actions and we disown what he has done in every single way."

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

“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

In California, complaints have driven administrators at the Encinitas Union School District to disown a Disney villain-themed drag show occurring Saturday as part of a queer youth “Boo Bash.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2022

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