impugn
Example Sentences
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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
That’s not to say that a cynic would be shocked if somebody donated to charity or helped a stranger, but they might suspect or impugn the person’s motives.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
Their best approach would be to impugn the credibility of the witnesses on the cross-examination, with the most vulnerable witness being Michael Cohen.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024
But first she bought brown drugstore hair dye, worried that being seen there might impugn her reputation.
From New York Times • May 7, 2023
No one, I think, will venture to impugn the motives or the purity of the intentions of Miss Heald in taking this step.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.