disown

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

“You don’t know me, fool / You disown me, cool,” Ice-T snarls in the 1988 hip-hop gang treatise “Colors.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

“My family would disown me,” he told the network in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak had to disown them publicly, insisting Ukraine had always been grateful.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023

“At one point, I had to disown my family to go off and live my own life, too. I understand why you need to do the same.”

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

If the ships are falsely flagged or flagged to a country that disowns them, the tankers can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction while in international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

You can detect the traces of the predecessor in the inheritor, even if the inheritor disowns any knowledge of the inheritance.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2019

Nonetheless, Serpa eventually found himself sympathising with the character of Crowe - a washed-up musician who disowns his biggest album as "the sound of someone having his fingernails pulled out".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2018

Nanjiani’s acceptance into his girlfriend’s family is equally fraught, even if no one disowns anyone.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2017

The Muse is silent; with a virgin cheek, Bow'd with the blush of shame, she ventures near— She waits the judgment that thy lips may speak, And feels the def'rence, but disowns the fear.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

He has disowned his previous Merkelism; as prime minister, he now champions Canada’s emergence as an “energy superpower” helping to restabilize the world and, not incidentally, Canada’s internal politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

In her memoir, Erivo writes at length about her estrangement from her father, who disowned her when she was 16 after an argument in a London train station.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

But uncertainty surrounds the royal succession, with no public announcement of an heir to the current king -- among his seven children, four have been officially disowned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

Ruby also disowned her daughter Shari, who was away at college.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

“Look at me, the heathen. I live on my own, and you haven’t disowned me yet.”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Just disown it and make a spectacle of disowning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The families of both Abu Shabab and Al-Astal issued statements disowning them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025

Supporting her now does not require disowning a single position.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022

However, the charity insisted it was not "disowning Sir Winston" and said its former name was "confusing to people and did not explain what we do".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021

I heard women reveal to men that the children they’d raised were not theirs and elderly parents inform grown sons and daughters that they were disowning them.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat