Disown

//dɪsˈoʊn//

"Disown" in a Sentence (11 examples)

"As, scared the Phrygian ranks to see, / confused, unarmed, amid the gazing throng, / he stood, 'Alas! what spot on earth or sea / is left,' he cried, 'to shield a wretch like me, / whom Dardans seek in punishment to kill, / and Greeks disown?'"

Please don't disown me.

When I crashed the family car, my father was so mad that he said he was going to disown me.

My parents will disown my brother if they find out that he's gay.

"Mary is engaged with an unvaccinated!" "No! How scandalous! With someone like that? I'd disown her!"

You should not disown your brother, even if he takes it upon himself to swallow you up.

If Republicans hated pedophiles, they would disown Ted Nugent.

Why did your parents disown you?

Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.

Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.

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He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own

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