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Definition

to deny (responsibility for, knowledge of, or ownership of)

disclaim = deny

She wants to disclaim the inheritance so it will go to her children instead of Medicaid.

disclaim = decline to accept

disclaims = denies

disclaim = deny

"Luck, 'most all luck," she disclaimed modestly, though her eyes lighted with sudden pleasure; and he knew her boy's vanity had been touched by his trifle of tempered praise.
Jack London -- Adventure
I was prevented from disclaiming the compliment (if I should have done so, in any case), by the entrance of Agnes, now ushered in by Mr. Micawber.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

disclaiming = denying (worthiness of)

But even at these times the rest of his person seemed to disclaim the intention.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

disclaim = deny

Phineas would be the first to disclaim any great mental power in himself.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

disclaim = deny

Francon shrugged apologetically, disclaiming all blame for the preposterous suggestion—"he wants it to look like this."
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

disclaiming = denying

Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

disclaim = deny

Fetiukov had three children at home but when he was sentenced they'd disclaimed him and his wife had married again.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

disclaimed = denied knowledge of (or further relationship with)

disclaimed = denied

disclaim = deny

Hanoi disclaimed it; Saigon said it wasn't ours.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
For first men will disclaim their hearts and presently they will have no hearts.
Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
Sartre emphasized that man must never disclaim the responsibility for his actions.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Always in those moments of revelation which he disclaimed, he had seen himself as faithful to the desert in the end.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
These by crowds whose acts the leaders disclaimed.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
First he coolly eyed the outlaw and then disclaimed any knowledge whatever of the train-robbery other than Fletcher had heard himself.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
I'll have my mouth first stopt with earth; my heart Abhors his knowledge: I disclaim in him.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone

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