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refudiate

verb /ɹɪˈfjuː.di.eɪt/

  1. To repudiate, to oppose.

    Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue […] some examples […] "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating).

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry refudiate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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