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impugns

  • present tense form of impugn (3rd person singular).

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We’ve learned a lot about women’s rights and the suffrage movement, and do we hear men saying that it shouldn’t be taught because it impugns men?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Still, founded on prodigious research, it convincingly impugns key tenets of Bugliosi’s narrative and exhumes a trove of provocative data.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2019

He also said it “tacitly impugns the integrity” of judges to suggest that they could not meet performance standards.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2018

Deliberately putting out a bad product is a bad-faith gesture to your paying customers and impugns the integrity of the game.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2017

"Without clearing his own honesty, he impugns my taste," said Crane.

From Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance by Miller, Alice Duer