1. Antonyms for Avowing include denying, gainsaying, censuring, concealing, condemning, contradicting, disAvowing, disclaiming, disowning and disputing

2. Later, after reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used".

3. For the heteronormative Cisgender person investigating trans sexuality, for example, this is often simply a matter of disavowing direct association with the matter under consideration--giving a shrugged mea culpa if you will (cf Smith, 2013)--which at once excoriates and exonerates in that it suggests that there will inevitably be faults due to that personal distance from the subject, but that