| 词汇 | impugn |
| 释义 | impugn verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪmˈpjuːn/ us /ɪmˈpjuːn/ to cause people to doubt someone's character, qualities, or reputation by criticizing them: 抨击;质疑 Are you impugning my competence as a professional designer?你是在质疑我作为专业设计师的能力吗？ Damaging reputation anti-defamation aspersion besmirch black mark blacken blot defamatory defame demonize dog drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom hatchet job scurrilous scurrilously self-immolation show someone in a bad lightidiom slander slur smear tarnish impugn | American Dictionaryimpugn verb[ T ] fmlus/ɪmˈpjun/ to cause people to doubt or not trust someone’s character, honesty, or ability: He could no longer work as a doctor because his reputation had been impugned. Examples of impugnimpugn According to his definition, a man lost his natural honour as soon as someone impugned it. Its most essential element remains a sort of formal rationality which no contingent truths of psychology could impugn. Accordingly, the relation of physics to mathematics does not impugn the self-sufficiency of the latter's conceptual system. I did not impugn his arguments in any way. Equally, candidates will have incentives to undermine the claims to virtue of their rivals, provided their own virtue is not also thereby impugned. A sense of honour impugned, or humiliation suffered, could and very often did lead to violence. He also argues that my criticisms do not impugn modest incorporationism. We hold it a slight not to be borne that anyone should impugn our essential manhood. This in no way impugns the quality of the contributions, all of which have been written with care and attention to detail. Rather, it was our belief that their evidence might be used by others to impugn rationality-based explanations of the process. Therein may lie the phonograph record's most profound justification, which cannot be impugned by any aesthetic objection to its reification. My answer is that the principle is offensive because it impugns the human dignity of terminally ill people who choose to stay alive as long as possible. Repetto (1972) cites a number of references on this point without realizing that they arguably impugn his hypothesis. If we do not wish to impugn the unique identity of each monozygotic twin, it is hard to base a convincing argument against cloning on this concept. More often, however, the charge was made in order to impugn the behaviour of the government and to bestow a martyred air of injured innocence on the prohibited texts. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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