disown

Example Sentences

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“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

But he may be the first to attempt to disown his immediate predecessors as party leader.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 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

“I ... I am afraid. Ladon will stop me. My sisters, if they found out. . . they would disown me.”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan