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Refuse to acknowledge responsibility for
Answer for the clue "Refuse to acknowledge responsibility for ", 6 letters:
disown
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Jen's parents threatened to disown her if she married Omar. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I know men who have been disowned. ▪ I was surrounded on the terraces by compatriots I wanted to disown . ▪ It is a tag he disowns. ▪ She ...
Usage examples of disown.
Disowned by her family, she and Papa had retired to the estate in Chantilly and lived a quiet, happy life.
He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.
Oft has your prophet, for reward of toil, Seen nests of seeming cockatrices coil: Disowned them as the unholiest of Time, Which were his offspring, born of flame on slime.
But look thou here, and as thou knowest or disownest this token, so obey or refuse her commands who hath deigned to impose them on thee.
Jaunty had said it, and Lester Maddocks, and now Signor Andreini disowning all responsibility for the actions of Lance Corporal Sweeting -was taking up the all too familiar melody.
A man whose name I have forgotten--a great lover of notoriety--appropriated the following verses by the younger Crebellon and went to the Bastille rather than disown them.
Whoever introduces new laws, not being thereunto authorised, by the fundamental appointment of the society, or subverts the old, disowns and overturns the power by which they were made, and so sets up a new legislative.
But she had disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to herself to feed her emptiness.
Talena, once the beautiful daughter of a great Ubar, shamed and disowned, was now nothing.
I hoped the others would honor him for it, but instead his master disowned him and he hanged himself.
If a father's dying curse held any power, he was as disowned as Donkerri, or as Kindrie, for that matter.
He dreamed that he again stood shivering by the fire in the Highlord's tower quarters after his grandfather had disowned him.
They both knew that Donkerri had been disowned and was almost certainly lying.
A fine time this would be to learn that his father's curse actually had taken effect, that he really was disowned and not the rightful Highlord after all.