become, disowning racism, middle-aged

There is still time, if Republican bigwigs have shame or sense enough, to disown Trump


Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.

Disowning racism

Mar 18th 2008 | NEW YORK
From Economist.com

Barack Obama speaks about raceMr Obama had to disown Mr Wright’s comments and he did, calling them not just “divisive” but “simply inexcusable”.


Barack Obama’s Speech on Race


disown Show phonetics
verb [T not continuous] ━━ vt. （関係などを）否認する; 勘当する.
to make it known that you no longer have any connection with someone that you were closely connected with:
It's a story set in the last century about a girl whose parents disowned her when she married a foreigner.
racism Show phonetics
noun [U] (UK OLD-FASHIONED racialism) DISAPPROVING
the belief that people's qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own, or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races:
The authorities are taking steps to combat/fight/tackle racism in schools.
The report made it plain that institutional racism (= racism in all parts of an organization) is deep-rooted in this country.

racist Show phonetics
noun [C] (UK OLD-FASHIONED racialist) DISAPPROVING
someone who believes that other races are not as good as their own and therefore treats them unfairly:
Two of the killers are known to be racists.

racist Show phonetics
adjective
He furiously denied being racist.
They were the victims of a vicious racist attack.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)