0 past simple and past participle of impugn
1 to cause people to doubt someone's character, qualities, or reputation by criticizing them:
Are you impugning my competence as a professional designer?
According to his definition, a man lost his natural honour as soon as someone impugned it.
Yet despite pressure to amend the legislation, many of the impugned provisions remain.
Equally, candidates will have incentives to undermine the claims to virtue of their rivals, provided their own virtue is not also thereby impugned.
A sense of honour impugned, or humiliation suffered, could and very often did lead to violence.
Therein may lie the phonograph record's most profound justification, which cannot be impugned by any aesthetic objection to its reification.
Yes, he impugned our motives in a way most offensive and most hurtful to us.
His honour was impugned because he was carrying out his duties as a brigadier in the forces in a certain part of the war zone.
It is already very widely suspected, and its fairness is being impugned on all sides.
