Under the sheer weight of numbers, grandparents, aunts and uncles have begun to disown their own. |
Neither do you disown a book that provided ideas and impulses to a generation of political science professionals. |
Her parents were furious when they learned of her condition and threatened to disinherit or disown her. |
Most puzzlingly, the Liberal Democrat leader appeared to disown his party's own manifesto twice. |
My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there. |
We prefer to think of ourselves as healthy and indestructible, and we disown our ailments and frailties. |