Synonyms of repudiation

repudiation

noun

ri-ˌpyü-dē-ˈā-shən 

1

as in denial

a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement

voters seemed satisfied by the candidate's public repudiation of the beliefs of an organization to which he had briefly belonged as a youth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• denial
• rejection
• disavowal
• contradiction
• negation
• disallowance
• refutation
• disclaimer
• denegation
• disconfirmation
• rebuttal
• disproof
• negative

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confirmation
• acknowledgment
• admission
• confession
• declaration
• concession
• affirmation
• assertion
• avowal
• testimony
• documentation
• validation
• testament
• corroboration
• attestation
• substantiation

2

as in refusal

the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired

New Year's resolutions typically include the repudiation of chocolate and other indulgences and the promise to resume working out at the gym

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refusal
• denial
• renunciation
• renouncement
• abnegation
• surrender
• resignation
• relinquishment
• self-denial
• self-abnegation
• self-renunciation

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• acceptance
• indulgence
• adoption
• embrace
• self-indulgence
• espousal
• embracement

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of repudiation

What's behind all this vacation repudiation? — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 June 2026

The results were widely interpreted as a repudiation of Labour's performance to date by British voters. — David Brennan, ABC News, 12 May 2026

Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026

Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026