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.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 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
• But Haspel had wanted to avoid saying it publicly, for fear of impugning the many people who still work at CIA who had some involvement with the post 9/11 program.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2018
• Nothing in this report impugns the integrity with our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• 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
• If Scarborough is just going to continue to channel the deep state’s refusal to accept the right of Trump to staff his administration by trying to impugn those picks, he’s learned nothing about why so many have such contempt for the legacy media.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Dec. 2024
• For example, opposition forces, led by Lee, have ruthlessly attacked the first lady, stirring mass protests and impugning her character.
  — Victor Cha, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024