But has it forsworn other nastinesses?
But Amir, who has forsworn his Muslim inheritance and concealed his Pakistani origins, finds his past catching up with him when he reluctantly agrees to his nephew's request to help defend an unjustly accused imam.
A few great novelists — Gaddis, McCarthy — have forsworn quotation marks, but not in the way that Volpi has forsworn them here.
Perhaps some genuinely believed that the IRA and the Provos had both forsworn their armed struggle, but many did not.
They've forsworn taxes, many of them, but they also promised to educate children, to build roads, to care for the needy and to do all of those things government is expected to do.
President Obama, much to his credit, has forsworn the use of torture, but politics and policy makers change and democracy cannot rely merely on the good will of one president and his aides.
Both he and the administration have forsworn the redrawing of boundaries, but some Republicans remain mistrustful.Gerrymandering is now elaborated by computers, not pensQuirks in the law can have curious results.
But this is a coalition government that has forsworn that kind of politics.
Austria and Denmark have forsworn any use of nuclear energy, but Finland's Parliament approved plans last year to build a fifth reactor in the country.
But since her graduation in 1990, she, too, has forsworn voice teachers, and relied on herself.
