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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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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 Robinson, Harry Perry

He has then to undergo the old academic form of the public impugnment of a thesis on some title of the pandects; but this ceremony, called the public examination, has degenerated into a mere form.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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 Lever, Charles James

The impugnment of Eli’s motives was evident to all.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various