Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 12, 2011
oppugn \uh-PYOON\, verb:
1. To assail by criticism, argument, or action.
2. To call in question; dispute.
The B.O. and his fellow Dems are not leaders, they only know how to oppugn the Republicans for coming up with solutions!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Aspects of the Novel, published in 1927, was one of the first critical works to oppugn modernism.-- John A. Dern, Monsters, Martians and Madonna: Fiction and Form In the World of Martin Amis
I do not wish to oppugn the character of Miss Goodrich by bearing false witness in regard to her activities.-- Jeffrey D. Marshall, The Inquest
Oppugn is born from the combination the Latin op-, "to oppose, attack," and pugnare, "to fight," similar to pugilsim.
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