impugn

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  1. transitive verb To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument: impugn a political opponent's record.

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  • While critical comment on stories & issues is welcomed, postings that descend to personal attacks on or impugn the integrity of other commentators will be blocked. —  CathNews
  • The ASBL began requesting Mr. Stamler's communications after several journalists informed the organization that Mr. Stamler had libeled and slandered the ASBL and its President Lloyd Chapman, and embarked on an aggressive campaign to impugn the organization's credibility with members of the media. —  Long Island Business News Products
  • No thrice-divorced former Oxycontin addict is in a terrific position to impugn anyone's mental balance. —  Forbes.com: Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard
  • I am certainly not trying to impugn the character of U.S. troops, the vast majority of whom are the pride of our nation, but it cannot be ignored that with lower standards there is a concomitant increase in the incidence of criminal activity -- weapons theft and smuggling included. —  Armed and Safe
  • "Clear images of an armoured policeman assaulting an innocent bystander from behind impugn the whole attitude to policing protests by the Metropolitan Police," said Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti. —  EurActiv.com
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  1. Middle English impugnen, from Old French impugner, from Latin impugnāre : in-, against; see in-2 + pugnāre, to fight; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also empugn; from Middle English impugnen, inpugnen, from Old French (also F.) impugner = Provencal impugnar, enpugnar, empunhar = Spanish Portuguese impugnar = Italian impugnare, impungare, from Latin impugnare, inpugnare, attack, assail, impugn, from in, on, against, + pugnare, fight, from pugna, a fight: see pugnacious. Cf. expugn, oppugn.
 

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