All 10 Uses of
repudiate
in
Profiles in Courage
- Even though his speech was repudiated by many in the North, the very fact that one who represented such a belligerent constituency would appeal for understanding in the name of unity and patriotism was recognized in Washington and throughout the South as a bona fide assurance of Southern rights.†
Chpt 2.3
- Determined to see the Legislature's resolutions withdrawn or repudiated, Benton launched an aggressive tour of his hostile state.†
Chpt 2.4
- The discharge of conscious duty prompts me often to confront the united array of the very section of the country in which I reside, in which my associations are, in which my affections rest…… Sir, if this is a boon that is offered to propitiate the South, I, as a Southern man, repudiate it.†
Chpt 2.5
- R. Anthony and others," he received a wire informing him that "Kansas repudiates you as she does all perjurers and skunks."†
Chpt 3.6
- Burned in effigy, accused in the press of "idiocy and impotency," and repudiated by his state and friends, Grimes never recovered—but before he died he declared to a friend: I shall ever thank God that in that troubled hour of trial, when many privately confessed that they had sacrificed their judgment and their conscience at the behests of party newspapers and party hate, I had the courage to be true to my oath and my conscience…… Perhaps I did wrong not to commit perjury by order of…†
Chpt 3.6
- But Lucius Lamar, a man of law and honor, could not now repudiate the findings, however shocking, of the Commission he had helped establish.†
Chpt 3.7
- He would not purchase the respect of the North for himself and his section by a calculated and cringing course;but having decided, on the merits, that the bill was wrong, he was anxious to demonstrate to the nation that statesmanship was not dead in the South nor was the South desirous of repudiating national obligations and honor.†
Chpt 3.7
- But it is unfortunate that he uses the Republican party as a vehicle to ride into office and then repudiates its standard-bearer.†
Chpt 4.8
- The Democratic nominee for United States Senator in New York expressed his deep shock at the Taft statement and his certainty it would be repudiated by "right-thinking and fair-minded Americans."†
Chpt 4.9
- The Louisiana delegation and other Southerners publicly repudiated him, and from that moment on his chances for the Presidency were nil.
Chpt 4.10 *repudiated = strongly rejected
Definition:
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(repudiate) strong rejection -- especially when the idea or thing being rejected was once embraced