- abjuration
- abnegate
- abnegation
- bar
- bat something/someone away
- decline
- disavow
- gainsay
- oppositional
- opt
- opt out
- pass on
- pass something up
- punt on something
- rebel
- refuse
- sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a ten-foot pole idiom
- tear
- wash your hands of something idiom
- would not do something for all the tea in China idiom
Meaning of repudiate in English
repudiate | Intermediate English
repudiate | Business English
Examples of repudiate
repudiate
Such past beliefs have never officially been repudiated.
From Slate Magazine
To do so would repudiate decades of propaganda to their own people attempting to justify their own one party tyranny.
From CNN
The legacy of fraudulent research lingers for years before it is recognized and repudiated.
From ABC News
We must admit that we have our own tiny minority whose message and methods we have not firmly, unitedly and publicly repudiated and rejected.
From CNN
I repudiate using the police to collect revenue.
From The Atlantic
With the documentary repudiated, its creators, many of them having openly endorsed the democratic movement, were purged, detained, or forced into exile.
From The Atlantic
Members from both parties should repudiate his comments.
From CBS News
We need not repudiate strict construction in its unproblematic and even essential meanings.
From Heritage.org
The narrowest reading of the amendment would hold only that the government may not repudiate payments of interest on existing bonds and similar obligations.
From The Atlantic
Nonetheless, the ruling is as close to completely repudiated as it could be without having been formally overruled.
From Los Angeles Times
We had a philosophy that repudiated the professional philosophy of focusing police on only responding to crime.
From NPR
The proposed $100 million jail for juveniles repudiates a century of juvenile court history and practice.
From Baltimore Sun
Earlier this year, he was repudiated by hundreds of rabbis and other spiritual leaders in an online petition covered by the national media.
From Los Angeles Times
It would be absurd if we said we repudiated money.
From The Atlantic
Well, that is the picture he is painting, and he needs to be repudiated.
From NOLA.com
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