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"These are grave assertions that directly impugn the claimants' personal integrity, character, and professional reputation", Lim said, adding that this was a factor in the awarding of the damages.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Ms. Nuzzi will not dignify efforts to impugn her character with any future response,” Nuzzi’s lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Stories like these are not told to impugn the professionalism and ethics of the American military.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

That’s not to say that a cynic would be shocked if somebody donated to charity or helped a stranger, but they might suspect or impugn the person’s motives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

No one, I think, will venture to impugn the motives or the purity of the intentions of Miss Heald in taking this step.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne

We’ve learned a lot about women’s rights and the suffrage movement, and do we hear men saying that it shouldn’t be taught because it impugns men?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

“For people to say we’re somehow manipulating the system — I do take offense, because that impugns my integrity as a system operator.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

He also said it “tacitly impugns the integrity” of judges to suggest that they could not meet performance standards.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2018

Deliberately putting out a bad product is a bad-faith gesture to your paying customers and impugns the integrity of the game.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017

These are the axiomatic bases of every social contract, and no question of the personal fitness of officers of state impugns their stability.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee

What they lacked was confidence that those results would be received as anything other than a provocation, with their motives impugned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

"On merit too, it is held that impugned transactions cannot be classified as manipulative or fraudulent transactions or unfair trade practices," the order notes.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

“It would seem that because not only their reputations are being impugned, but they are central to this case—it would seem that an interview of these two prosecutors would be central.”

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024

“The impugned conduct took place in Queensland whether one terms the impugned conduct an ‘effect’ or actual conduct,” she added.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

People tend to get defensive when the integrity of their national sport is impugned.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Such was the outcry that Ms. Oudéa-Castéra was obliged to apologize for impugning the performance of teachers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

She said plaintiffs could potentially go after companies for faulty or negligent designs that result in algorithms putting out damaging information, impugning reputation.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

“I do not appreciate his impugning the integrity of these proceedings, your honor’s efforts to run a fair trial and our efforts to run a fair trial.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

It sometimes seems as if the participants in the debate are more concerned with impugning each others’ motives than addressing the genuine issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Even Ned Stark could scarcely object to that, not without impugning the honor of the king.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin