impugn
verb (used with object)
to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
impugnment
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a word derived from
impugn.
Example Sentences
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As her vivacity never lessens our impression of her sensibility, so she wears her masculine attire without the slightest impugnment of her delicacy.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
The statement of these facts involves no impugnment of American urbanity, American wit, American chivalry, or American enterprise.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
It would be no impugnment of my honesty that some one bequeathed me an estate,—not that I think the event a likely one.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
That would be an outrageous impugnment of the goodness and mercy of God, especially when he has distinctly declared that he does not willingly afflict or grieve the child of man.
From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves
There is no impugnment of his character, no injury that cannot be repaired.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
