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?
For example, a variety programme might be impugned afterwards as having been improper in some respect, and what was actually said might be disputed.
None of the facts that we have cited has been challenged; none of the evidence has been impugned.
Nobody here or anywhere else has ever before impugned my articulation or clarity of speech.
But now, in time of peace, our honour is impugned on the ground that these engagements are inconsistent with one another.
But all of us have been impugned by her allegations.
I am not suggesting that anybody else thinks, or has said, that their loyalty has been impugned.
But some of the workers themselves have drawn the conclusion that their loyalty is being impugned, not other people.
It is already very widely suspected, and its fairness is being impugned on all sides.
