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repudiation
[ri-pyoo-dee-ey-shuhn]
noun
the act of repudiating.
the state of being repudiated.
refusal, as by a state or municipality, to pay a lawful debt.
Other Word Forms
- repudiatory adjective
- nonrepudiation noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of repudiation1
Example Sentences
Two days after the game, Clark, like she did several times last year, gave her usual surface-level repudiation of any hatred around her, the Fever and the WNBA.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a separate lawsuit challenging the same order late Monday, with executive director Anthony D. Romero calling it “unconstitutional” and “a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values.”
And, in a repudiation of Trump’s charge that China runs the canal, Mulino denied that any country except Panama directed operations.
In 2017, Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of the writers group PEN America, warned of Trump’s “repudiation of the American ideals — grounded in the Enlightenment — of self-expression, knowledge, dissent, criticism, and truth.”
Other California reform advocates, however, rejected the idea that the election results were a repudiation of progressive policies.
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