Word: impugnable
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...Dallas, that fine Cowboy running back, Mr. Craig Baynham, happened to fumble a kickoff return. We may have been mistaken, but it appeared to us that one of our players recovered the football. The referee, however, awarded the ball to Dallas. Of course, we in no way mean to impugn the integrity of our esteemed officials. Rather, we note this seeming discrepancy only in the interest of bettering football-and good sportsmanship-everywhere...
...making that statement," he said. "We are in the wrong place, and we are fighting the wrong kind of war." He credited Johnson, however, with having "tried hard and vigorously and consistently to find a way to the negotiating table," and expressed the hope that other Senators "will not impugn his motives...
Basic to U.S. trial procedure is the principle that a defendant's past convictions, if any, may not be introduced to show that he is probably guilty because he was guilty in the past. Should a defendant choose to testify, however, the prosecutor is permitted to try to impugn his credibility. In most states, prior convictions may then be introduced on the theory that they cast needed light on whether his word can be trusted...
Prosecutor's Nightmare. Although Bailey put on his own medical witnesses to cast doubt on Helpern's testimony and to deride the possibility of crime by hypnotism, his major strategy was to impugn Marge Farber.* Throughout he described her as a woman scorned who lived only for revenge on Coppolino. "She would sit in his lap in the electric chair," said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first...
Many citizens, even some who concede the Warren Report's failings, insist there should be no reinvestigation because such a move would impugn the integrity of the Warren Commission's members. But Epstein shows that the Commissioners were hindered in their task primarily by factors beyond their control; thus their integrity need not be called into question by a reinvestigation. Their performance, as manifested in the Warren Report, has already been called into very serious question, and that is obviously a necessary consequence of any new inquiry into the assassination...