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to deny (responsibility for, knowledge of, or ownership of)- We disclaim any responsibility for the accident.
disclaim = deny
- She wants to disclaim the inheritance so it will go to her children instead of Medicaid.
- She disclaims any knowledge of such abuses.
- We disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
- "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
- But even at these times the rest of his person seemed to disclaim the intention.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- Phineas would be the first to disclaim any great mental power in himself.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- Francon shrugged apologetically, disclaiming all blame for the preposterous suggestion—"he wants it to look like this."Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- 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
- 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
- His being only a bystander was not disclaimed.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- I disclaim any personalities.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- 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
disclaim = decline to accept
disclaims = denies
disclaim = deny
disclaiming = denying (worthiness of)
disclaim = deny
disclaim = deny
disclaiming = denying
disclaim = deny
disclaimed = denied knowledge of (or further relationship with)
disclaimed = denied
disclaim = deny
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