'disavowal' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a noun and refers to the formal rejection or denial of something. For example: "His disavowal of the policy shows that he does not support it."
Netanyahu surged to victory with the right partly on the back of a clear disavowal of his 2009 Bar-Ilan speech in which he committed to a two-state solution, the basis of US-led negotiations with the Palestinians.
Obama has either let acrimonious feelings for Netanyahu cloud his decisions "or he's delusional", Senator John McCain said on CNN's State of the Union, referring to the president's comments on Friday that Netanyahu's recent disavowal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it "hard to find a path forward".
For all their disavowal of inebriation and criminality, young people are still proving more likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety.
At the very least it must declare and enforce a long-term ceasefire as a hoped-for prelude to a complete disavowal of violence.The second stage, if it is clear that Hamas accepts Fatah's peaceful approach, would be to pull it into a revived peace process.
Rather, his racial disavowal was a quintessentially American gesture toward self-invention.
In particular, they were deeply distrustful of Iran's efforts to politicise the haj, at which millions of Muslims from around the world converge each year, by holding a "disavowal of the pagans" rally against Israel and America as part of the ceremony.
And it is loth to accept the PA's terms for a government of national unity, since it would have to accept PA political control of its own military wing though it says it has accepted another demand, the disavowal of violence.
Many on the right believe his disavowal of past positions on health care, abortion and climate change, among other subjects, is simply strategic; they fear he would revert to relatively liberal form if elected.
He learnt, during his successful peace-broking in Northern Ireland in 1995-98, that groups such as the Irish Republican Army could not be expected to meet preconditions, such as a definitive disavowal of violence, if an eventual peace was to be achieved.
But the Americans sound cautiously optimistic that the Iranians' nuclear disavowal is genuine.Whether or not they entered the country with the connivance of Iran's militant Revolutionary Guards, the al-Qaeda detainees have become an embarrassment to their hosts.
But he cites mitigating circumstances: exposure to the press was only one of the causes of Dr Kelly's misery (another was his fateful disavowal to the Foreign Affairs Committee of an interview with another BBC journalist, Susan Watts, that in fact existed on tape).
