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repudiation
noun
1 repudiation
Rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid:
— Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated.
synonym: renunciation.
Roget 773:
nonobservance
etc.
772;
evasion,
inobservance,
failure,
omission,
neglect,
laches [Law],
laxity,
informality.
infringement,
infraction;
violation,
transgression;
piracy.
retraction,
retractation†,
repudiation,
nullification;
protest;
forfeiture.
lawlessness;
disobedience
etc.
742;
bad faith
etc.
940.
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Roget 808:
nonpayment;
default,
defalcation;
protest,
repudiation;
application of the sponge†;
whitewashing.
insolvency,
bankruptcy,
failure;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
run upon a bank;
overdrawn account.
waste paper bonds;
dishonored bills,
protested bills;
bogus check,
bogus cheque,
rubber check.
bankrupt,
insolvent,
debtor,
lame duck,
man of straw,
welsher,
stag,
defaulter,
levanter†.
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Roget 756:
abrogation,
annulment,
nullification,
recision;
vacatur [Lat.];
canceling
etc.
v.;
cancel;
revocation,
revokement†;
repeal,
rescission,
defeasance.
dismissal,
conge [Fr.],
demission†;
bounce [U.S.];
deposal,
deposition;
dethronement;
disestablishment,
disendowment†;
deconsecration;
sack [Slang],
walking papers,
pink slip,
walking ticket;
yellow cover [Slang].
abolition,
abolishment;
dissolution.
counter order,
countermand;
repudiation,
retraction,
retractation†;
recantation
etc.
(tergiversation)
607;
abolitionist.
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Roget 610:
rejection,
repudiation,
exclusion;
refusal
etc.
764;
declination
Roget 536:
negation,
abnegation;
denial;
disavowal,
disclaimer;
abjuration;
contradiction,
contravention;
recusation [Law],
protest;
recusancy
etc.
(dissent)
489;
flat contradiction,
emphatic contradiction,
emphatic denial,
dementi [Lat.].
qualification
etc.
469;
repudiation
etc.
610;
retraction
etc.
607;
confutation
etc.
479;
refusal
etc.
764;
prohibition
etc.
761.
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Roget 55:
exclusion,
nonadmission,
omission,
exception,
rejection,
repudiation;
exile
etc.
(seclusion)
893;
noninclusion†,
preclusion,
prohibition.
separation,
segregation,
seposition†,
elimination,
expulsion;
cofferdam.
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2 repudiation
Refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities).
Polish: repudiacja
3 repudiation
The exposure of falseness or pretensions.
synonym: debunking.
Dutch: verstoting
Polish: demaskowanie, obnażanie
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