disinvite
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of disinvite
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After the hounding of Diana by the paparazzi, he says he personally rang tabloid newspaper editors to disinvite them from the Abbey funeral, after their invitations had already been sent out.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The United States put pressure on France to disinvite the South African president to the G7 summit in the French town of Evian in June, the South Africsan presidency told AFP Thursday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
More than 7,000 students at the university in Fairfax have signed a petition to disinvite Mr. Youngkin from the school’s May graduation ceremony.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
But when Samantha Markle began talking to the press about how she wasn’t invited to the royal wedding, Harry and Meghan had to make the difficult decision to disinvite Ashleigh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Others have announced plans to disinvite Russians, only to face a backlash and reverse course weeks later.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
And though DeRemer had planned to attend the premiere of “Melania,” the documentary about first lady Melania Trump, he was disinvited shortly before the Jan. 29 event and didn’t attend, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
You could count up the faces on the event poster, but that leaves out the performers who agreed to do the festival but were disinvited, such as Tim Dillon.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2025
“Reading Rainbow” host and freedom-to-read advocate LeVar Burton,who took the reins after Barrymore was disinvited, kicked off the evening with a book-banning joke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
A year later, the first known example of the new "no-platform" rule being used came when Kate Devlin, a professor at King's College London, was disinvited from speaking at an event about artificial intelligence.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
That is why I am going to the banquet; also why I have disinvited the boys I thought I was going to punch billiards with, upstairs to-night.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Albert Bigelow Paine
Australia's leading Adelaide Festival is battling a slew of artist withdrawals and board resignations after disinviting a Palestinian-Australian author citing "cultural sensitivities" raised by the Bondi Beach shooting.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
“We made a mistake,” Dodgers team president Stan Kasten said Monday about disinviting the Sisters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
He made a show of publicly disinviting them after Stephen Curry, the team’s star, said he wasn’t interested in going.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
On Monday, the American Association for the Advancement of Science said it was disinviting Lander, who was scheduled to speak at its annual meeting next week.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
“By allowing the nine or 10 to show up and by heaping praise on the team, I think the president would have helped himself a lot more than by simply disinviting them,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
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