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Meanings of disqualifying in English

Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified.

Usage of disqualifying in English
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Yesterday the panel disqualifying ex-Baathists said six winners would lose their seats.
The Irish Times
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On the purely intellectual side, the disqualifying circumstances are complexity and vagueness.
Practical Essays
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It would be disqualifying if our hyper­democracy hadn't already abolished disqualifications.
NY Magazine
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Officials ended up disqualifying her -because she was a girl.
Reuters
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Maybe there will be a cat-torturing, wolf-slaughtering, Bible-blaspheming, presidential-disqualifying smoking gun.
The Guardian
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This is just the effect your disqualifying laws have produced.
Peter Plymley's Letters, and Selected Essays
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Tiny drops of melanin were exotic, but too-dark was disqualifying.
Ebony
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These should be self-coloured throughout, and light shadings, though not disqualifying, should be discouraged.
Dogs and All about Them
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Some black advocates said on Friday that Klobuchar's record on police misconduct was disqualifying.
Reuters
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Democrats said his lack of experience should be disqualifying.
Reuters
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If you have a propensity toward kidney stones, for example, that was a disqualifying thing.
Wired
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The other thing is that we're so distracted, we think the gold paint is disqualifying.
The new yorker
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Controversy is now a naughty thing, a disqualifying thing.
The new yorker
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Clinton posted on Twitter that Trump's comments are disqualifying.
Reuters
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FAULTS-Whitehairs are objected to, but are not disqualifying.
Dogs and All about Them
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The unfortunate result was, in my opinion, a justice whose record was disqualifying on its face.
True compass: a memoir
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Disqualifying through the time