impugnment
Example Sentences
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They have their company of false witnesses ready for any accusation—no impugnment upon their credit being the fact that they live by perjury, and have no other subsistence.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James
"O-oh!" cried Mrs. Brook, with a drawn-out extravagance of comment that amounted to an impugnment of her taste even by herself.
From The Awkward Age by James, Henry
As her vivacity never lessens our impression of her sensibility, so she wears her masculine attire without the slightest impugnment of her delicacy.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
The statement of these facts involves no impugnment of American urbanity, American wit, American chivalry, or American enterprise.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
It would be no impugnment of my honesty that some one bequeathed me an estate,—not that I think the event a likely one.
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
