What is "debunk"

Usage examples of "debunk".

All that nose-picking and farting stuff peppered throughout was stuck in as just a bit of a debunking trick.

The atheist debunks the mysticism of his old memories by faultfinding analysis or the tolerant superiority of one awakened from a dream.

The lovers of Shakespeare ought to have seen that their idol had been debunked, that in fact he had no merits, and they ought to have ceased forthwith to take any pleasure in him.

He can no more be debunked by such methods than you can destroy a flower by preaching a sermon at it.

Gore would rather hold on to a theory that has long since been debunked, than admit the damage to ozone levels will be reversed.

Modernize the style of this, and it might have come out of one of the debunking war books of the nineteen-twenties.

Partly that was the effect of the war of 1914-18, which succeeded in debunking both Science, Progress and civilized man.

If there was one thing that the British intelligentsia were committed to, it was the debunking version of war, the theory that war is all corpses and latrines and never leads to any good result.

From what I could hear he was repeating his conviction as to the medieval age and Bantu origin of the central African ruin system, and was lightly and amusingly debunking my own writings.

It was one of several television series produced by an organization called REALI-TV -- including Promises, Promises, devoted to follow-up analyses of unfulfilled campaign pledges at local, state, and national levels, and Bamboozles and Baloney, a weekly debunking of what were said to be widespread prejudices, propaganda, and myths.

It was one of several television series produced by an organization called REALI-TV-- including Promises, Promises, devoted to follow-up analyses of unfulfilled campaign pledges at local, state, and national levels, and Bamboozles and Baloney, a weekly debunking of what were said to be widespread prejudices, propaganda, and myths.

She debunks the notion of romance about twenty years before it became widely acceptable to do so.

He knows that however energetically he debunks the idea that hook-hanging and fire-walking are paranormal phenomena, people in his own country and abroad will probably continue to regard them as miracles.

But even though Pleasantville never debunks an "America that nobody really had, that never really existed," it's still fun to watch.

It carries within itself an echo of the painful features In our developmeat related to the cult of personality that has been debunked and repudiated by the Party, features that, although they are not so far away from us in time, nevertheless seem to us to be in the distant past.