impute
verb (used with object)
to attribute or ascribe.
have imputed
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present perfectof impute.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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Had his Senate speech attacked coal miners, someone would surely have imputed skullduggery to union labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus far the matter is of little importance; and it might have been supposed that malignity itself could hardly have imputed such trash to Shakspeare.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
The answer to this lies in the second of the errors which I have imputed to Lord Carlisle.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
The enemies of Constantine have imputed to interested motives the alliance which he insensibly contracted with the Catholic church, and which apparently contributed to the success of his ambition.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
I had never traced them into their practical consequences, and if his conduct on this occasion had not squared with his maxims, I should not have imputed to him inconsistency.
From Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown
