repudiate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with repudiate, each labelled with its topic.

• The mayor moved quickly to repudiate the leaflet, saying the campaign had neither paid for it nor seen it.

  Politics

• Three later trials led the authors to repudiate their own paper, which the journal retracted the following spring.

  Science

• When a government repudiates its bonds, lenders spend the next decade demanding higher yields from every borrower in the region.

  Finance

• A buyer who repudiates the contract before delivery gives the seller the right to sue for damages at once.

  Law

• Wittgenstein came to repudiate much of his early book, arguing in later years that its picture of language was mistaken.

  Philosophy

• Late in life the painter repudiated the movement she had founded and refused to exhibit alongside its members.

  Art

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