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All of the relatives are morally superior to Becket; after all, it’s not their fault he was disinherited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

For Thurman, hatred is the real threat of occupation because it disguises itself as common sense and self-protection, then spreads through the disinherited as the cancer it becomes.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

Did your brother know she would be disinherited, and if so, why?

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2022

Revenants from forgotten wars, lost causes, failed rebellions, a brotherhood of the failed and the fallen, the disgraced and the disinherited.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin