Both Uses of
repudiate
in
Catch-22
- Colonel Cathcart was stung by the blunt rebuke and skulked guiltily about his room in smarting repudiation.†
Chpt 13
- Nately plunged back into debate with him, determined to repudiate his vile logic and insinuations
Chpt 23 *repudiate = reject and prove wrong
Definition:
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(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced