Word: impugning
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...believe we should not commit ourselves to either America or Russia. My response to this is: Are we out of our tiny island minds? America has bailed out the free world since the war with billions of dollars. Many people resent her generosity; but at least let us not impugn her good intentions...
Tossing a bombshell designed to impugn the President's integrity and spread distrust of him in West Germany, Khrushchev charged that the President's professed desire to see Germany reunited is insincere. Actually, said Khrushchev, the President told him that "the U.S. is afraid of building up Germany." The bomb fizzled: West Germans scoffed at the accusation, and the White House speedily denied...
...Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned out to be the stone pillow of an early saint...
There can be only two explanations, unless our neighbors are women of little faith and have no confidence in the economy. The first, that they are unaware of fashion changes, is intolerable. To impugn their sartorial sensitivity would be to question their femininity. The second is that they consider the new style unflattering. But surely the structure of the average 'Cliffe must at least resemble that of her Parisian sister. The shapeless look and an elbow-length sleeve would certainly be a refreshing change in many cases, and in some respects the 'Cliffes would have less to lose than their...
...stiffest diplomatic message of his Administration, the President charged Bulganin with a serious violation of international practices in which "you seem to impugn my own sincerity." By sending the note in the middle of an election campaign, he said, and especially by referring, by implication, to Stevenson's views on atomic testing, Bulganin had interfered in U.S. internal affairs in a way that, "if indulged in by an ambassador, would lead to his being declared persona non grata...