Word: impugnable
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...Green's point is well taken. Robert Moses spent decades in the public service and remained, throughout his career, one of the most scrupulously honest figures in New York state government. I surely never meant to impugn Mr. Moses' personal integrity--all of us who have read Mr. Caro's book realize that this cannot be done. However, it is no secret that through the peak of his career Mr. Moses enjoyed the concomitant privileges of a personal fortune -- in terms of access to the state's vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that...
...Hill Cumorah, won by ancestors of the American Indians. The trouble is there is no accepted archaeological proof of the book's claims, and the church shows no interest in excavating Hill Cumorah, where there should be vast numbers of skeletons. The effort of anti-Mormons to impugn the book through handwriting experts, on the theory that it was stolen from the manuscript of an old novel, fizzled out last year when one expert backed out and a second reversed his findings...
...game is over. The train ride back to Harvard square will show the mettle of the fans from the two schools. Loud and vicious insults are a must for this occasion, especially if Harvard wins. In that case, you can taunt the Terrier fans because their team lost and impugn their intelligence...
...crossexamination, Bailey tried to impugn Berzins, wondering sarcastically how the witness could even have been sure that the person who dropped and retrieved the ammunition had been female...
...well under congressional fire that he managed to win over many of his opponents. In the House debate last week, Minority Leader John Rhodes said that Rocky had been "probed, provoked, tried, tested and observed from virtually every conceivable angle and perspective." Yet nothing had come out to impugn his character. While acknowledging that he still had reservations about Rocky's lavish gifts to public officeholders, Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino argued that such misgivings were outweighed by the "totality of this man's experience, the totality of his dedication and talents...