How To Use disinherited In A Sentence
- Hart's good - bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited.
- About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
- The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
- Oh, Adele left me - as I always half expected she would - after Rochester disinherited me.
- Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee. Keeper Of the Shrine
- His indignant parents promptly disinherited him, and Joly went to work as a secretary to put him through medical school.
- Inasmuch as the disinherison or omission by parents of their children has generally no good reason, those children who complain that they have been wrongfully disinherited or passed over have been allowed to bring an action impeaching the will as unduteous, under the pretext that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of its execution. The Institutes of Justinian
- But the racially excluded, the economically disinherited, and the psychologically wounded certainly do.
- And must the disinherited knight, whose blood has been warmed in the company of the tender and beautiful Rebecca, sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?
- In a Parliament of May 18, 1584, such declinature of royal jurisdiction was, by "The Black Acts," made treason: Episcopacy was established; the heirs of Gowrie were disinherited; Angus, Mar, and other rebels were forfeited. A Short History of Scotland
