impugn
Example Sentences
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In the latter, he said he did not impugn the jurors — who were not present — but was advising the just-acquitted defendant to stay out of trouble.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Ms. Nuzzi will not dignify efforts to impugn her character with any future response,” Nuzzi’s lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
If Gardner was going to impugn his character and question his credibility, he decided, he wouldn’t cooperate with her prosecutors.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023
But first she bought brown drugstore hair dye, worried that being seen there might impugn her reputation.
From New York Times • May 7, 2023
This is not at all to impugn Mr. Brisbane's motives, but merely to indicate on what slender strings such an editorial may depend.
From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Ford, Henry
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
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