Defense lawyers will look for inconsistencies in the same records as they try to impugn her credibility further.
“I think the jury will see it as a desperate attempt to try and impugn his character,” Slotnick says.
No one, I think, will venture to impugn the motives or the purity of the intentions of Miss Heald in taking this step.
Not being able to impugn her beauty, they attacked her costume.
We take refuge in a grievance rather than impugn the supremacy of our ego.
"I am not attempting to impugn the qualifications of the witness," I snapped.
His choice was unexceptionable: and those who impugn it are blind.
Nor in the town, nor among the caste, could any one impugn the act.
What we have to do is an act of justice, and I don't wish that anyone should be able to impugn my motives.
To suppose it so little as most people do, is to impugn the justice of Providence.
"attack by argument," late 14c., from Old French impugner, from Latin impugnare "to assault, to attack," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + pugnare "to fight" (see pugnacious). Related: Impugned; impugning.
