disowned

Trying to get a startup going, but lost all of my friends and my family disowned me.

In some places you'll merely be shunned and disowned by your family and friends.

Windows Vista, the disowned stepchild, even has a higher market share than OS X[1].

I've already disowned my mother, but it won't bring my health back.

Using a throwaway as I am not out yet and If I am out, I would be disowned at best or killed at worst.

Think of all the well-off kids who didn't follow in their fathers footsteps or what their parents wanted and pursued their own dreams, at the risk of being alienated, disowned etc.

At any rate, were someone to actually successfully steal your idea, this person would probably be found out and disowned by the community and YC.

I initially leaned towards it, but (a) the even model is something I find less pleasant to work with than the dependency model, and (b) the original author disowned it as unfixable.

One thing I'm still confused about: if the parents have literally excommunicated him/functionally (temporarily) disowned him, who's idea was the PR firm, and moreover, who is paying for it?

I know that Canada has been trying to lure medical doctors from abroad (Eastern Europe and elsewhere) in recent years, but they're after the young graduates, not the old veterans who were disowned by the fall of Communism.

Of course you could be an orphan, disowned or with parents living on less than a dollar a day in the Global South, but I find it hard to believe you have no friends or family to help you.

Having many personal discussions with many the deeply religious, I can honestly say that the majority do have empathy for those who are being discriminated against, abused, disowned, lynched and executed because of their expression of gender identity.

IP means, in its conclusion, that the creators are disowned and the "owners" own your ideas.

Family, friends and business associates have all "Disowned me," for various reasons, even though I was the victim.

How is that different than saying "If I could have sex exclusively with men without being disowned by my family, I would, but it's just not that important to me?" You're not alone.

I'd just like to point out that the "Australian terrorist operation" turned out to be one person with a previous history of violence and mental instability, who has been disowned by every group he claimed some connection with.