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wash one's hands of
verb as in forsake
verb as in give in/give up
verb as in repudiate
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"At the time, online critics noted the privilege required to wash one’s hands of such demonstrations and binge on cake instead," Bradley said, adding that Fey "admitted, they were right."
"We think it's a dereliction of responsibility to expect the Syrian Democratic Forces to solve this problem or to expect the Iraqi government to solve this problem or to simply wash one's hands of the problem altogether," he said.
To simply wash one’s hands of reality, and pass the buck for responsibility onto scientists with no policymaking authority, is to be a science denier.
V. resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny &c.
"If they're each and all so extraordinary then, isn't that why one must just resign one's self to wash one's hands of them—to be lost?"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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