0 to say that you do not think something is true, or that it might not be true:
Truth is never better cleared than when it is oppugned and contradicted.
No one would have reasonably oppugned their opinion.
She had the audacity to oppugn the conclusions of her department head.
Though oppugned, this doctrine is as stable and impregnable as that of the earth's motion.
Either, therefore, he who oppugns incorporeal quality seems also to oppugn unqualified matter; or separating the one from the other, he mutually parts them both.
A skeptic can only doubt, never oppugn the gospel.