disavow
verb (used with object)
to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate.
will disavow
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future tenseof disavow.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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As always, should you or any of your team be caught or killed or let a bookie sponsor your pants, the government will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2012
As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics, Desilu's president Lucille Ball will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will disavow him, and leave him to his fate.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
But to sign it with the mental reservation that one will disavow one's signature if the obligations undertaken become irksome, that is swindling.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
He will disavow an action that appears to him blameable, but not criminal.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
