disavowing
present participle ofdisavow
disavow
verb[T]
formaluk/ˌdɪs.əˈvaʊ/us/ˌdɪs.əˈvaʊ/to say that youknownothing about something, or that you have noresponsibilityfor orconnectionwith something:
They werequickto disavow therumour.
Shetriedto disavow her past.
Refusing & rejecting
- abnegate
- abnegation
- bar
- batsomething/someoneaway
- blow(something)out
- brush
- disown
- jettison
- miss a chance/opportunityidiom
- opt out
- punt onsomething
- quit
- quit onsomeone
- react
- react againstsomething
- rebuff
- repudiate
- resistant
- spurn
- turnyournose upidiom
Examplesofdisavowing
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Yet this effect of the legalistic context, like the photograph itself, also fades from view bydisavowingits status as an effect.
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These could be removed only by publiclydisavowingfurther expansion.$!
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Similarly, partiesdisavowingcertain coalition possibilities usually keep those promises as well.
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Here, the artist protects himself from the pressures of contradictory forces - the im/possibility of art under commodification - by simultaneously avowing anddisavowinghis work's critical existence.
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At the same time, he seemed to bedisavowingany intention that he was going to alter the position of the shareholders.
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The practical reason fordisavowingintervention is the size of our foreign exchange reserves relative to the floods of money going through the foreign exchange markets every day.
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Tactics of the group included filing liens against properties,disavowingstate and federal authorities, and opening an embassy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the type of person who, withoutdisavowinghis or her biological and social nature, does not avoid freedom and responsibility.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It adopted an intransigent attitude toward the country's governments,disavowingcollaboration and pursuing a policy of confrontation toward them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They asked if the rumor was true, and demanded that he sign a documentdisavowingany connection to the vigilance committees.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Japanist unions endeavoured to win support bydisavowingviolence and pledging support for nation and emperor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this way, critics serve the malamati's purpose ofdisavowingthe approval of society more than the apologists who would attempt to praise them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many missiologists are nowdisavowingthese methods and attempt to construct a new paradigm that does not employ such imperialistic approaches which lead to language and cultural imposition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Watson was unusual among the phrenologists in explicitlydisavowingphrenology in later life.
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