disbarred; disbarring; disbars
: to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges
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How eight of his closest associates have been sentenced to prison and many more have been disbarred or otherwise shamed?
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article The state Appellate Court has rejected claims by a lawyer who said she was wrongly disbarred after making what were found to be baseless allegations of bias against a judge.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2024
People may be wayward, weak or behave reprehensibly (like the magistrate Grace encounters who was disbarred for masturbating in court, played endearingly by Eric Bana), but most of them do their best.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 June 2024
Both men were also previously disbarred by the Guardian Council.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 June 2024
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article The state Appellate Court has rejected claims by a lawyer who said she was wrongly disbarred after making what were found to be baseless allegations of bias against a judge.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2024
People may be wayward, weak or behave reprehensibly (like the magistrate Grace encounters who was disbarred for masturbating in court, played endearingly by Eric Bana), but most of them do their best.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 June 2024
Both men were also previously disbarred by the Guardian Council.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 June 2024
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disbar
verb
dis·bar
dis-ˈbär 
disbarred; disbarring
: to deprive (a lawyer) of the right to work in the legal profession
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