Now I am faced with this current situation and find my reputation being impugned yet again -with absolutely no explanation from the commission.

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However, many might feel that their own skills or integrity are being impugned, or that the good name of their company is being endangered.

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He tweaked competitors, as in the Chevrolet Silverado TV ad during the most recent Super Bowl, in which Ford trucks were impugned by name.

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In the late republic, that outsized wealth impugned her morals.

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But the Court of Appeal judges said Siac had been entitled to think there was a risk the "impugned statements" would be used in evidence during a retrial and there was "a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice".

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"During my 35 years in the working world, I had never been accused of so much as jaywalking, so it was painful for me and my family to have my honesty and integrity impugned, often by innuendo, " he wrote in his book about the probe.

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Now that he has kicked the industry's habit of denying that there is anything the least bit unwholesome about smoking, Mr LeBow finds his motives impugned by the tobacco bosses who have continued for years to insist with straight faces at congressional hearings, against all the evidence, that they do not believe nicotine to be addictive.

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