REPUDIATED Synonyms: 140 Similar and Opposite Words

repudiated

verb

Definition of repudiated next

past tense of repudiate

as in denied

to declare not to be true vigorously repudiated the charge that she had lied on her résumé

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as in refused

to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility the angry mother bitterly repudiated her teenaged daughter, telling her that she never wanted to see or hear from her again

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as in rejected

to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to we didn't like the terms, so we repudiated the contract

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as in renounced

to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to) the producers of the hit TV show threatened to take the disgruntled actor to court if he attempted to repudiate his contract

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Recent Examples of repudiated And major medical groups have repudiated conversion therapy as ineffective and harmful. —

Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026 The post was quickly repudiated. —

Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026 The profound significance of the recent protests lies in their creation of a vast public space where tens of thousands repudiated the lie in unison. —

Azadeh Moaveni, Time, 3 Feb. 2026 Whatever the specifics were, this looks like voters repudiated the new voting processes that made the odds lower for any one candidate to advance. —

Dianna Russini, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026 Any unilateral invasion is a pretext for any other unilateral invasion, which is why each must always be repudiated, regardless of the moral justification. —

Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026 And she’s really rejected, repudiated by the Venezuelan people. —

Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026 For those who recall the impunity of those years, Kast’s election signifies an end to a thirty-five-year period in which most Chileans repudiated Pinochet’s legacy. —

Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025 Many conservatives repudiated parts of the political left for not more forcefully condemning Kirk’s killing. —

Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2025

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The general director of visual arts at Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance—Mahdizadeh Tehrani— denied that the state ever withdrew from the exhibition this year, and said the country still hopes to take part in some capacity.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 13 May 2026
For example, don’t spend the entire conversation complaining about a past boss who denied your PTO request, McGoff says.

— Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 13 May 2026