Disavowal

Word DISAVOWAL
Character 9
Hyphenation dis a vow al
Pronunciations [dɪsəˈvaʊ(ə)ɫ]

Definitions and meanings of "Disavowal"

What do we mean by disavowal?

A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone).

Without association. Refuse to acknowledge. No approval. Deny responsibility for. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Disavowal

The word "disavowal" in example sentences

Whatever his intention, I think Scott's disavowal is significant, particularly in light of his consistent refusal to publicly discuss his own ethnic background, which became an issue after Crossfire was released: ❋ Unknown (2007)

We start with the statement of a “fact” and we’re left with a disavowal from the also anonymous Teddy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For Schelling's purposes, the Phrygian priests of modern European philosophy embody the spiritualizing violence and recursive loop of this desire, desire that even puts the resistant negativity of the body to efficient good work by libidinally investing its very disavowal, that is, by secretly deriving pleasure out of the ascetic renunciation of pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2000)

By making it an issue and demanding some kind of disavowal, however, the campaigns bring attention to these comments as a way of painting the other side as hitting below the belt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The new tiredness is 'located in the head' and seems to be the result of a special kind of disavowal where structurally generated work habits are perceived to be under the control of the individual to an extent that may not be the case. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

I hesitate to remind all of my blogging bretheren, but this "disavowal" movement is a bi-partisan, intra-partisan game. ❋ Unknown (2004)

As I have noted, Freud published his "disavowal" of Moses the year before, that is to say, a year before the Nazis marched into Austria. ❋ Gay, Peter (1987)

Elisabeth Guigou, a former Socialist justice minister, said that Mr Sarkozy's personal intervention was a "disavowal" of Miss Dati. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the fact that Nader needlessly phrased this pointed challenge to Obama in racialized language indicates the kind of disavowal occurring in those who would put Obama in the same boat as McCain, Bush and Clinton: "I know that he is black and has overcome the impossible and criminal limits that have heretofore defined a nation, but he is a neoliberal hawk and a war-criminal-in-waiting '. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Public disavowal of a liberal personage will become a felony offense. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pelosi Raps Gingrich House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back at fellow former Speaker Newt Gingrich Sunday morning for his disavowal of a TV ad the pair appeared in together, in which they called for action on climate change. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Especially given that the comments are fairly short, reading more as general musings on the subject than strident disavowal. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

The discreet gesture of mercy towards the four bishops ordained validly but not legitimately, suddenly appeared as something entirely different: as a disavowal of the reconciliation between Christians and Jews, and therefore as the revocation of what in this area the Council had clarified for the way for the Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The remarks, which triggered a walkout by the Palestinian delegation, prompted an immediate disavowal by Netanyahu's office. ❋ Colum Lynch (2010)

A fuckboy: I wish there was a cure for AIDS. [SS] guy: It would be better if it could be modified to target people with a certain [percentage] of [melanin] in the skin. An intellectual: I disavow everything that has been said in this server, and everything that will ever be said in this server. What is said here does not represent my beliefs. ❋ Proza (2019)

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