refudiate

== English == === Etymology === Blend of refute +‎ repudiate. Often associated with Sarah Palin's infamous 2010 lapsus linguae. A few rare attestations predate the 1970s. Since then the word has been uncommon although not rare, but many written occurrences of the word focus on prescriptively repudiating its use; it remains nonstandard. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfjuː.di.eɪt/, /ɹəˈ-/ === Verb === refudiate (third-person singular simple present refudiates, present participle refudiating, simple past and past participle refudiated) (nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose. 1951, Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence, 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85: Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue […] some examples […] "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating). 1988 March 3, James Bilbray, quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report,[3] U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9: I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying. a. 2008, Alan Moore writes in the subsection, Dr. Manhattan: Super-powers and the Superpowers, pg. iii, of Chapter IV, in Watchmen The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Manhattan. a. 2010, David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times, 2010 June 27, page BU1: Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context. 2010, Matt DeLong quoting Sarah Palin, “'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post, 2010 July 20: Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "refudiate," of course, is not a word. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:refudiate.