impugn
verb (used with object)
to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
have impugned
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present perfectof impugn.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Many have impugned the billionaire space moguls’ actions, including the secretary-general of the United Nations, and the troubles of Blue Origin’s corporate culture are well-documented of late.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
He didn’t have to specify whom these words were targeted at: some of those who have impugned his own motives were sitting before him.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2016
Nor does he enter a protest against the gladiatorial shows, which was the first thing a high moralist would have impugned, and which the Christians attacked with equal enthusiasm and courage.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
And so it was the thoughts of these scribes, which, as applied to Christ, were 'evil'—since they imputed to Him blasphemy—that gave occasion for offering real evidence of what they would have impugned and denied.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
They have impugned it, as I think wrongly; and its defenders have defended it, and defended it wrongly.
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
