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disinvite

[ dis-in-vahyt ]

verb (used with object)

, dis·in·vit·ed, dis·in·vit·ing.
  1. to withdraw an invitation to.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of disinvite1

First recorded in 1570–80; dis- 1 + invite
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Example Sentences

The whole night was so surreal because we’re all masked up and half the people we invited we had to disinvite because the Ontario government came down with a new law the night before the Emmys where the number of people for an outdoor event, which was at 50, was cut down to 25.

Shortly thereafter, NYU students filed an anti-discrimination complaint against the university for failing to punish, expel, or disinvite people who called Israel “racist” and an “apartheid” state, declared their support for the Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions campaign, or opined that “resistance is justified when a people are occupied.”

From Slate

Mr. Kennedy scolded Democrats who signed a letter calling for Republicans to disinvite him from congressional testimony.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and committee chair Jim Jordan, who is holding the hearing, have so far refused to disinvite Kennedy.

Schultz also called out House Republicans’ efforts to condemn Jayapal’s comments with a vote but their refusal to disinvite Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from a hearing Thursday despite comments he made about the Covid-19 virus being engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

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