Sample Sentences for
repudiate
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    And precisely because what they "see" is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers' claims.  (source)
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    To know and not to know, ... to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to...  (source)
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    repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit  (source)
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    And now you have repudiated the character of Lopsang with your "tattle tale" accounts of him.  (source)
    repudiated = strongly rejected
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    Nately plunged back into debate with him, determined to repudiate his vile logic and insinuations  (source)
    repudiate = reject and prove wrong
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    Her expression was neutral, but Blomkvist thought he saw a hint of disappointed repudiation in her eyes.  (source)
    repudiation = rejection
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    "That funeral wasn't about celebrating Kerry's life," Mom growled, yanking at her scarf. "It was about repudiating it. It was like they killed him all over again."  (source)
    repudiating = strongly rejecting
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    in which a rebellious, difficult son repudiates his birthright and destroys himself.†  (source)
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    He seems to hover, shadowy, almost substanceless, a little behind and above all the other straightforward and logical even though (to him) incomprehensible ultimatums and affirmations and defiances and challenges and repudiations, with an air of sardonic and indolent detachment like that of a youthful Roman consul making the Grand Tour of his day among the barbarian hordes which his grandfather conquered, benighted in a brawling and childish and quite deadly mud-castle household in a miasmic and spirit-ridden forest.†  (source)
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    ...the woman he had repudiated five hours earlier.  (source)
    repudiated = rejected
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    Sir, if nominated, I shall repudiate it.  (source)
    repudiate = strongly reject
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    Furthermore, it suggests reasons of personal convenience, rather than any definite repudiation,  (source)
    repudiation = strong rejection
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    Can you suppose I should ever think of such a thing as repudiating you, or even reproaching you?  (source)
    repudiating = rejecting strongly
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