John Green

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

American Author

Mark Fisher

Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain beliefs (about money, commodities etc) are true. The rituals are the beliefs, beliefs which, at the level of subjective self-description, may well be disavowed.

British Writer

Celeste Ng

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

Jill Lepore

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

American Historian

Paul Berg

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

American Scientist

Pete Gallego

I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.

American Politician

Jane Mayer

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

American Journalist

W. Kamau Bell

Over the years, I'd hear Jon Stewart disavow being a journalist and say, 'No, I'm a comedian.' I'd be like, 'Stop pretending. You know you're a journalist.

American Comedian

Anthony McCarten

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

New Zealander Novelist

Mike Cernovich

American Writer

Used when publicly denying involvement or knowledge in a situation.

Public Denial

Implies a firm and decisive rejection to distance oneself from an issue.

Strong Rejection

Often used to avoid blame or deny responsibility for an action.

Avoiding Blame

Expresses strong disapproval or disagreement with a particular idea or statement.

Emphatic Disapproval

Often used to distance oneself from unethical practices or beliefs.

Ethical Distancing

Used to clearly state that one does not support or is not affiliated with someone or something.

Denouncing Affiliation

 inconvenient for some people so they just disavow it we maybe those of us who believe in it may be wrong about how quick the adverse consequences would be manifest but I think with regard to science we at least have to get those

Neil and Bill Talk...

 improvements as they grow older we've asked well maybe older people are just trying to put a positive spin on an otherwise depressing existence but the more we've tried to disavow this finding the more evidence we find to

Older people are happier...

 these improvements as they grow older. We've asked, well, maybe older people are just trying to put a positive spin on an otherwise depressing existence. But the more we've tried to disavow this finding,

Laura Carstensen: Older...

 was published or not it was something that had to be written to say what needed to be said to validate my reality even if it was disavowed which it was it

Disavow