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was impugned
verb
To assault, attack.
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What I thought was four years of public service was impugned.
Their intellectual honesty was impugned, and their doctrines were blamed for weakening the moral fibre of Greece.
Killers have frequently been given reduced sentences by arguing that a woman provoked them, or that their dignity was impugned.
Last winter, when Tom Daschle ventured some mild criticisms of President Bush's foreign policy, his patriotism was impugned.
In hundreds of cases in the past, killers were able to secure a reduced sentence arguing that a woman provoked them, or that their dignity was impugned.
"Fred's reputation was impugned by Apple," said Roger McNamee, a managing director at Elevation Partners, the venture capital firm where Mr. Anderson is a colleague.
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He seemed to think I was impugning all conservatives.
In that moment, he was impugning my knowledge and at the same time defending Sarah Palin.
"I'm saying that if the word phony to you, as communicated to you, meant that I was impugning you as a person or minister, I apologize.
I was impugning the fact that you, sir, do not speak for the South Africans any more than I speak for all Americans". In another excerpt, he said, "It was an unfortunate choice of words.
"The British state's position was being impugned," Macpherson said.
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