disown

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

“My family would disown me,” he told the network in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

“His view is if it’s good for him at that moment, he’ll do it, and then if something bad happens, he’ll disown any responsibility for it,” the former governor said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

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

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

The Catholic Church, not to speak of its individual members, disowns such a pretension as that; Ecclesia non judicat de internis is a maxim in Catholic theology.

From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan

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

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

And the academics, in turn, disowned the state curriculum guide and created their own materials.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

If I hadn’t married Bull, I think mother would have disowned me.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Mom thought it was a great plan, but Dad accused Lori of stealing his children and declared he was disowning her.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls