Word: disown
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...attitudes about the proper role of women also manifest themselves in a variety of fears. Horner, an associate professor of psychology and social relations, described a number of phenomena afflicting women, including fears of both success and failure, and the "imposter phenomenon," the tendency for highly successful women to disown their own accomplishments...
...regulation concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses, the University has relapsed a long way toward the bigoted puritanism which it has been trying to disown for many years...
...movie that is reasonably genial and diverting. At a cost of $10 million or $15 million, it might have made the studio happy. But even the misery of its unrecoupable costs is cushioned; the management that initiated the project has been replaced, and the new team can cheerfully disown it. And the Great Seducer skips off to the next bed -- er -- boardroom...
...singing bush that knows only public domain songs and Martin's turning an attempt to escape from a dungeon into a parody of a Nautilus workout. Under John Landis' slaphappy direction, the movie does not always bounce that wildly off the wall. But Monty Python would not entirely disown it either...
Indian officials were quick to dispute the report. "How can Union Carbide disown its own subsidiary?" H.R. Bharadwaj, India's Minister of State for Law and Justice, asked in an interview with the New York Times. (The company holds a 50.9% stake in Union Carbide India Ltd.) "We expected the company would try to palm off the blame," Kamal Pareek, an engineer familiar with the plant, told the paper. "But Union Carbide cannot escape responsibility." Indeed, suits totaling more than $250 billion have been filed against the firm on behalf of the residents of Bhopal...