Sentence examples for is disavowed from inspiring English sources
verb
To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown.
- He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
Now that ideology is disavowed as passé and "divisive", governments are adopting subliminal forms of policy and persuasion.
"Ghost Protocol" picks up with the Impossible Mission Force as its top agent (Mr. Cruise), blamed for blowing up the Kremlin, is disavowed.
In "The Way of the World" (Harper 2008), Ron Suskind draws a narrative map tracing the fake memo story from Mr. Allawi back to the White House — a trail, it should be said, that is disavowed by the two C.I.A. officials who Mr. Suskind says were intermediaries, and who are cited in the book as sources.
Even as colonialism as a constitutive and current condition is disavowed, the historical "fact" of colonization assumes an irrefutability that forecloses possibilities for futures otherwise.
Mrs Angle is disavowing her previous musings about privatising social security, abolishing Medicare and otherwise slashing government.
A spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, which is disavowing Clayton, theorized that he won because "his name was at the top of the ticket".
10 10 p.m.: Politico reports that the Obama administration is disavowing the statement by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Disavowal All Reasons Reason the device was disavowed.
Disavowal Date Date that the device was disavowed.
# Disavowed and Dubious Number of devices that have been disavowed and require re-registration for continued network use.
Mr. Makarov was disavowed by his party.
