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A message smuggled from his jail described his son as a traitor and disowned him.

However, the artist—after becoming frustrated with the industry—soon disowned many of his contributions.

Several of his closest friends abandoned him, and many family members disowned him.

Grand gets to be disappointed without being disparaged, disowned, or disemboweled.

Only his uncle disowned the boys, saying out loud what most of the world was thinking: “Losers.”

All authority, save that of the nation, was disowned; even a parent was not to exercise any power over his son.

The national poet at no time absorbed the personal, the personal poet at no time disowned the national.

I told him that I was ruined—that my father had disowned me—that I was forced to earn my own livelihood.

Although, to his anger, he had long ago been disowned, he still went to meeting once or twice a year.

Methods and theories were propagated there under the shadow of his name which he would have disowned.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disowned, such as: deserted, desolate, ignored, isolated, jilted, and marooned.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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