Sample Sentences for
repudiate
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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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    this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."  (source)
    repudiated = strongly rejected
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    I will need to repudiate them.  (source)
    repudiate = strongly reject
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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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    I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.  (source)
    repudiated = strongly rejected
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    It's the easiest of all debts to repudiate.  (source)
    repudiate = strong rejection
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    he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its traditions.  (source)
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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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