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
To Reuben, therefore, a peer was like a god; and he would have no more questioned Lord Fareham's will than a disciple of Hobbes would have imputed injustice to Kings.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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
And we all know, how much the reputation of families lies at the mercy of servants; and it is easy to guess to what cause each would have imputed his or her dismission.
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
You would have imputed to him on the spot the lively possession of a new idea, the sustaining sense of a message important enough to justify his irruption.
From The Outcry by Henry James
