repudiate
Her actions represent a repudiation of his leadership.
The election result was a clear repudiation of the mayor, who has suffered damage over recent scandals.
He saw his teenage son's flight to Canada as a clear repudiation of everything he holds dear.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

Examples of repudiation

repudiation
In addition, authentication using public key encryption limits message repudiation: if a message is confirmed as authentic, the sender cannot easily deny sending it.
This reader was not left entirely convinced that the grain crises of the 1790s represented a 'repudiation' of the moral economy.
Moreover, it would not be difficult to show that a similar repudiation of survivor guilt has occurred in many other contexts and areas of inquiry.
Alarmingly, public opinion was evenly divided between support for and repudiation of this ' death squad ' for common criminals.
These repudiations resonated with the empiricist teachings of contemporary natural science.
Such processes of repudiation, abjection and attempts at recuperation may have unintended political consequences.
The woman maintained her absolute right to it, though, and it had to be paid in the case of a repudiation.
It groups them under four defiant nouns - rejection, repudiation, resilience, continuities - words that virtually contain in themselves the thesis of the entire monograph.
In this way, displacement of heroic middle-class experts by old boys entailed a renewed repudiation of statist intervention.
The psychological and moral dimensions become even clearer when we look at the way in which women's lawyers try to prevent repudiation (or revocation).
It turns out that the stock of debt increases infinitely without repudiation under very general circumstances.
Finally, women's lawyers may apply for ' judicial repudiation ' on the grounds of incompatibility between the spouses.
There is a clear repudiation of romantic hermeneutics and, as a consequence, the recognition of multiple meanings.
His repudiation of excess desire is hypocritical, for it derives from the entrenchment of his own inhibitions and his enslavement to them.
The first of these proposals is merely the repudiation of strong historical, psychological, genetic, or environmental determinism.
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