{"id":37041,"date":"2022-08-19T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37041"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:47:55","slug":"word-of-the-day-821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/08\/19\/word-of-the-day-821\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Impugn<\/em>:<\/p>\n

to cause people to doubt someone’s character, qualities, or reputation by criticizing them:
\nAre you impugning my competence as a professional designer? [Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Trump has never been in so much peril. Nor has the GOP<\/em><\/a>.” Jennifer Rubin, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s\u00a0lame overtures<\/a>\u00a0to Attorney General Merrick Garland to \u201creduce the heat\u201d of the political fallout from the Mar-a-Lago search \u2014 while simultaneously insinuating that violence might occur if the Justice Department keeps pursuing him \u2014 is as disingenuous as it is utterly irrelevant to Garland. The Justice Department\u2019s prosecutors and investigators certainly don\u2019t care if Republicans are still enthralled with Trump. They will go after anyone who engages in acts of violence, as Garland\u00a0made clear<\/a> in his remarks last week in which he demanded that people stop impugning and threatening the FBI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kinda odd I’ve made it this far through life without actually ever having checked into the meaning of impugn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impugn: to cause people to doubt someone’s character, qualities, or reputation by criticizing them: Are you impugning my competence as a professional designer? [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in “Trump has never been in so much peril. Nor has the GOP.” Jennifer Rubin, WaPo: Trump\u2019s\u00a0lame overtures\u00a0to Attorney General Merrick Garland to \u201creduce \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37042,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37041\/revisions\/37042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}