disinvite

From dis- +‎ invite.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɪnˈvaɪt/

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disinvite (third-person singular simple present disinvites, present participle disinviting, simple past and past participle disinvited)

1. (transitive) To cancel an invitation to (someone).

   Hypernyms: exclude, disclude, disinclude, uninclude

   Near-synonym: uninvite (see notes)

   • 1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Edwina Gately, a lay missionary who works with prostitutes in Chicago, was recently "disinvited" from delivering homilies at two parishes after the pastors received conservative complaints.

   • 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     Tech people rarely, if ever, have a sense of the broader applications and policy implications of the projects to which they're assigned. And the work that consumes them tends to require such specialized knowledge that to bring it up at a barbecue would get them disinvited from the next one, because nobody cared.

   • 2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Well-meaning people have advised me that voicing this opinion could lead to being disinvited from literary events and festivals, and that my career in Germany – the source of my livelihood for the last two years – might be over.

   • 2024 February 8, Philip Oltermann, “Berlin international film festival disinvites AfD politicians from gala”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The organisers of the Berlin international film festival have disinvited five politicians from the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from next week’s opening gala in the German capital, citing recent reports on the AfD’s alleged mass deportation plans.

• The prefix dis- gives a more negative implication to disinvite than the neutral implication un- gives to uninvite. One might "uninvite" guests because one had more than an anticipated number of acceptances. One might "disinvite" someone for a reason specific to the person.

• uninvite vs. disinvite at Merriam-Webster Online