Synonyms:
imputation
Meaning: the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"
Synonyms:
imputation
Meaning: a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"
Usage examples
He allowed the imputation to pass without denial.
The seeds of such an imputation, once sown, quickly come to maturity.
His prudent conduct, however, seems to acquit him of this imputation.
The young man, at least, thought his manner of looking an offense to Miss Miller; it conveyed an imputation that she "picked up" acquaintances.
The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation, and suppressed a sigh, and moved to the table at which Mr Fledgeby was now pouring out for himself a cup of steaming and fragrant coffee from a pot that had stood ready on the hob.
In excuse for the too free exposing of his person, which seemed unsuitable in a secretary of state, he alleged, that it became him to be more active than other men in all hazardous enterprises, lest his impatience for peace might bear the imputation of cowardice or pusillanimity.
An illustration of this is furnished by the honour with which some of the inhabitants of the continent still regard a successful marauder, and by the question we find the old poets everywhere representing the people as asking of voyagers--"Are they pirates?"--as if those who are asked the question would have no idea of disclaiming the imputation, or their interrogators of reproaching them for it.