disclaim
verb (used with object)
to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown.
have disclaimed
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present perfectof disclaim.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Supreme Court may have disclaimed any reliance on Lochner.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2020
But that document, first reported by Bloomberg News earlier this month, doesn’t yet have widespread buy-in among caucus members, and several have disclaimed any effort to draft a formal agenda.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015
Both leaderships have disclaimed any interest at all in a getting-to-know-you session.
From Time Magazine Archive
If his interrogator had accused him of a serious crime he could hardly more anxiously and more earnestly have disclaimed it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Sometimes the masters of the craft, like Catherine de Medici or Napoleon, have avowed it; sometimes, like Frederick the Great, they have disclaimed it.
From The European Anarchy by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
