impugned
Example Sentences
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What they lacked was confidence that those results would be received as anything other than a provocation, with their motives impugned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“It would seem that because not only their reputations are being impugned, but they are central to this case—it would seem that an interview of these two prosecutors would be central.”
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
Then he publicly impugned her honesty, her motives and even her sanity after she told the story publicly in a 2019 memoir.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Federal and state prosecutors have dropped or dismissed dozens of cases that relied on the impugned officers and the city now faces a federal civil rights lawsuit over the text messages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
People tend to get defensive when the integrity of their national sport is impugned.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
