Example sentences for: repudiated

How can you use “repudiated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Erik Erikson once observed that "we who know so much about the child in the adult know so much less about the fate of the adolescent in him, whether as a continued source of renewal or as a split-off younger self alternately idealized and repudiated, revived and 'murdered'--and, of course, reprojected on the young."

  • We are talking about Hollywood, of course, which means that violence--particularly political violence--must be repudiated in the end.

  • Last month, de Klerk's National Party repudiated the Truth Commission, calling it a politically driven "witch hunt " bent on proving the existence of a systematic program of violence where none existed.

  • Broaddrick filed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying Clinton raped her, but she repudiated the affidavit last year.

  • Wallace, the profile argues, claimed to have repudiated racism but used issues such as crime and welfare as veils for old-school segregationist politics.


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