Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being impugned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid.
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- adjective That can be
impugned ; open to (verbal) attack, open to question.
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- adjective subject to being discredited
Etymologies
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Examples
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We, too, find these twisted, evil minds of suicide bombers impugnable (ph).
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East, certainly in none of the great self-governing colonies with which we rank ourselves, is the position of white man _qua_ white man so high, his status so impugnable, as in South East Africa.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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The only impugnable matter in the deed lies, as has been said, in the number of cardinals so created at a batch.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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The only impugnable matter in the deed lies, as has been said, in the number of cardinals so created at a batch.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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In point of literary consistency the hero is at all events impugnable, though we cannot say as much for the heroine.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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Her reason for not apprising him of their interview at Bethany, though not easily impugnable, was not as satisfactory to his understanding as to his ear.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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