Repudiate
verb
To refuse to accept or to be associated with something.
She repudiated the new management structure.
Often appears as...
- repudiate a contract
- repudiate a claim
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Formal
verb
To deny the truth or validity of something.
He repudiated the allegations against him.
Often appears as...
- repudiate allegations
- repudiate charges
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal
verb
To refuse to acknowledge or pay a debt or maintain a connection with someone.
The company repudiated its links with the suppliers.
Often appears as...
- repudiate a debt
- repudiate a connection
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Business
verb
To refuse to accept or to be associated with something.
She repudiated the new management structure.
Often appears as...
- repudiate a contract
- repudiate a claim
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To deny the truth or validity of something.
He repudiated the allegations against him.
Often appears as...
- repudiate allegations
- repudiate charges
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal
verb
To refuse to acknowledge or pay a debt or maintain a connection with someone.
The company repudiated its links with the suppliers.
Often appears as...
- repudiate a debt
- repudiate a connection
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Business
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Social Disassociation
Use 'repudiate' to show strong disapproval or dissociation from policies or social views.
Many voters repudiate the candidate's views on immigration.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Rejection
'Repudiate' suggests a firm rejection and often implies that you think something isn't worthy of consideration.
The scientist repudiated the outdated theory in his lecture.
Pro Tip 1/2Social Disassociation
Use 'repudiate' to show strong disapproval or dissociation from policies or social views.
Many voters repudiate the candidate's views on immigration.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Rejection
'Repudiate' suggests a firm rejection and often implies that you think something isn't worthy of consideration.
The scientist repudiated the outdated theory in his lecture.
Pro Tip 1/2Social Disassociation
Use 'repudiate' to show strong disapproval or dissociation from policies or social views.
Many voters repudiate the candidate's views on immigration.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Rejection
'Repudiate' suggests a firm rejection and often implies that you think something isn't worthy of consideration.
The scientist repudiated the outdated theory in his lecture.
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Political common ground...
in the common, instinctive wisdom of the plain people. And the essential virtue of that people is always being threatened by outsiders. And he's got a strategy for how to get there. He's got a series of policies to bring the people up and repudiate the outsiders,
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Political common ground...
in the common, instinctive wisdom of the plain people. And the essential virtue of that people is always being threatened by outsiders. And he's got a strategy for how to get there. He's got a series of policies to bring the people up and repudiate the outsiders,
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Vince Cable
British Politician
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
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Gordon W. Allport
American Psychologist
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Jean Genet
French Dramatist
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
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Norman Finkelstein
American Educator
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
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Ronald Reagan
American President
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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Chuck Schumer
American Politician
The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.
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Vince Cable
British Politician
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
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Gordon W. Allport
American Psychologist
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Jean Genet
French Dramatist
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
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Norman Finkelstein
American Educator
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
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Ronald Reagan
American President
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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Chuck Schumer
American Politician
The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.
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