disavowal

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This is called fetishistic disavowal: "I know very well, but...".

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denial of any connection with or knowledge of

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noun

denial of any connection with or knowledge of

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noun

denial of any connection with or knowledge of

Example sentences

This is called fetishistic disavowal: "I know very well, but...".

If PC disavows AC, then I've failed to find the disavowal by looking up the pointers to AC in the index of PC.

Does the disavowal tool negatively affect the sites being disavowed?

Somehow it seems unfair for Google to suggest that people spend time with the disavowal tool to correct deficiencies in Google's algorithms.

Exactly, and now it puts the onus on the website owners to make use of the disavowal tool, which can only be done with extra monitoring on their part.

It could also just be an expression of generalized anxiety, or a disavowal of expertise to keep one's self from getting cocky.

She's making the claim that most security bugs fall in the category of being caused by language errors?And, like another comment, I'm not sure I agree with disavowal of the length field.

" John Carmack and id software, to me, represent the disavowal of all pretense, the refusal to seek the respectability of more historically established fields.

Persons holding clearances are not allowed to confirm or deny any purported classified material, so I would expect any NSA disavowal to take some time if it occurs at all.

That's a tacit disavowal of the law in anticipation of it being changed — and I suspect it will be that way with Uber as well for some time, except where the laws prohibiting it are particularly strong.

Here's Clark:[Russell's] explanation that he had simply forgotten what he had said [...] would be more acceptable if applied to one speech rather than to a long series of articles and statements [...] It might be possible to argue that his disavowal of advocating preventive war was based on the most academic interpretation of the term: that advocating the threat of war unless a potential enemy submitted, even though being prepared to have your bluff called, was not advocacy of a preventive war.

" Yes, this gives Google a powerful tool for weeding out fake/malicious content, but it also hurts the user experience and the mission in the long run, compared to solutions that allow for more manual review, more use of inbound link disavowal, or finer-grained penalties that target only the possibly "low-quality" pages without spilling over to entire sites.