0 present 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?
It would be extremely difficult to release that information without impugning the source.
This may be said without impugning the quality of our own manufactures.
There was and is no question of my impugning the integrity of the executive council.
It is not a question here of impugning the motives of those at present responsible.
He treated that suggestion as though it was somehow impugning the statistical integrity of officials.
By that, we were not impugning the capacity or the integrity of the judge or, indeed, the greatness of his office.
I am not in any way impugning the impartiality of the judiciary.
I am not impugning the impartiality of the judges.