The word "disown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe the act of rejecting any connection with or responsibility for someone or something. Example sentence: The father disowned his son after learning he had committed a crime.
Or that Scotland, avid participant for over two centuries in the splendour and folly of empire, as the opulent houses near Glasgow and the Indian cemeteries full of young Campbells attest, should now wish to disown its senior partner.
Most puzzlingly, the Liberal Democrat leader appeared to disown his party's own manifesto twice.
For all his admissions of total artistic compromise, Auburtin is far too decent to disown the movie.
As far as "substantive responses" go, within 24 hours of the piece being posted online, Mr Minh, Mr Sombath's counterpart from the UNDP side, had been pressured to disown his role in the story.
But having heard Ms Le Pen disown her father's views Jean-Marie Le Pen once referred to the Holocaust as a "detail" of history—he is taking her at her word.Though this highly personalised form of politics has worked well so far, it hardly looks sustainable in the long term.
But he appeared to disown a suggestion by his senior military chief that American soldiers could be embedded with Iraqi fighting units.For America, the heart of the strategy is to turn disgruntled Sunnis against the jihadists, especially in Iraq.
At home, ministers denounce and disown the policies for which they themselves have voted in Brussels.
Countries that make it impossible to disown all religious affiliation are usually pretty unpleasant places to profess a sincerely held faith.
He thought the financial crisis had shunted public opinion to the left, giving him a handy opportunity to disown Labour's record and promote the market interventions he had always yearned for.
St Paul's Road-to-Damascus moment had nothing on Rudy's.Mrs Clinton's desire to disown this ancient profanity is understandable.
(Mr Obama was, however, conciliatory about another mess that Mr Brown is unable to disown: Iraq.
