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repudiate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reject |
| Derivation | repudiation, repudiative |
The woman repudiated the divorce settlement.
repudiate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | deny |
| Derivation | repudiation, repudiative |
She repudiated the accusations.
Examples of repudiate
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He occasionally minimizes the import of those words but does not repudiate them.
From the washingtonpost.com
The judge, however, was again obliged to repudiate a 1948 pro-segregation speech.
From the time.com
These comments and others were so offensive that America had to repudiate them.
From the freep.com
Now Science has released two papers that it says repudiate the original research.
From the nytimes.com
He also did not repudiate any of the more brutal portions of the Old Testament.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He also did not repudiate any of the more brutal portions of the Old Testament.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Will you repudiate the strangle hold unions have over portions of the economy?
From the economist.com
It has been said that we cannot repudiate this debt as it has not been done before.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Inflation follows, allowing the sovereign to pay off or repudiate government bonds.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Disown: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
- Refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
- Refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"
- Reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"
- (repudiation) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
- (repudiation) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"
- (repudiation) the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
- Anticipatory repudiation, also called an anticipatory breach, is a term in the law of contracts that describes a declaration by the promising party to a contract, that he or she does not intend to live up to his or her obligations under the contract.
- (Repudiation (cryptography)) In cryptography, deniable authentication refers to authentication between a set of participants where the participants themselves can be confident in the authenticity of the messages, but it cannot be proved to a third party after the event.
