How to Use impugn in a Sentence

impugn

verb

• Her motives have been scrutinized and impugned.
• He impugned his rival's character.
• Where, on the Schorr-Bitburg scale, does this attempt to impugn Cawthorn land?
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• To imply that some staffer is somehow pulling the strings of the President is to impugn the President.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
• This isn’t an attempt to ban speech, or impugn anyone’s First Amendment rights.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2024
• This isn’t an attempt to ban speech, or impugn anyone’s First Amendment rights.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
• How dare this dumb-dumb try to impugn the Bachelorette's character.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 July 2023
• Campaigns that are trailing in the polls often impugn them, of course, but Biden aides cite reasons for their skepticism.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Those numbers reflect the measures Bennett impugns as, pardon the term, overkill.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• China is waging an information war to whitewash its handling of the virus and impugn the U.S.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2020
• Besides, skeptics will not be able to impugn his scholarship for long.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• As a growing body of consistent evidence can be hard to explain away, one fallback is to impugn the source.
  — Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2020
• Fields was grilled by his board last week and impugned by investors eager for a turnaround in Ford’s declining earnings and shares.
  — Keith Naughton, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• An NFL quarterback doesn't impugn his linemen for sacks.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Emcees had to impugn patrons' masculinity to goad them to the stage so that Daniels could flip them onto their backs and lower herself onto their noses.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• But with a little muddying of the waters, McCabe's firing could be used to further impugn the integrity of the special counsel's work.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• The aim was to impugn Mr. Cochran’s personal life, but the man later pleaded guilty to charges including exploitation of a vulnerable adult and served time in prison.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Sign-stealing always has been part of the game, but modern technology has taken it to a new level that threatens to impugn the integrity of baseball.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• House Speaker Sara Gideon warned Hanington against impugning lawmakers and that set in motion the exchange.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• These types of claims are not reliable or fair indicators of an officer’s conduct, and would not be used to impugn any other person.
  — Taylor Avery, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
• But, Peruto said, as attacks by Mill’s supporters have moved beyond her handling of the rapper’s case and toward efforts to impugn her integrity, the judge has felt a need to respond.
  — Mark Fazlollah, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• She was later called out for impugning her Democratic colleagues and had to rephrase her criticism.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Toward the end of the hearing, Morrissey became heated in responding to the defense arguments, alleging that Spiro had impugned her conduct to the court.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 17 May 2024
• Maybe that’s in part because scientists have been so anxious that the world — or at least the American public — not impugn their work as speculative or dangerous.
  — David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2017
• As a recent experiment demonstrated, the best AI vision system might see a picture of your face and spit out a racial slur, a gender stereotype, or a term that impugns your good character.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
• Any male cyclist who’s been on the receiving end of harassment knows it’s always about impugning your masculinity.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 5 July 2018
• Added to that, McCabe is a potential witness in any obstruction case against Trump, adding to suspicions the President was trying to impugn his character.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 17 Mar. 2018
• This destruction of evidence, this obstruction of justice, impugned Colangelo more than anything else that came to light.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 9 June 2018
• Sorry, but that one play impugns Cooper’s football character.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• But President Donald Trump and others repeatedly impugn the integrity of the mail-in voting system.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020