Sample Sentences for
impeach
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impeach as in:  impeach the President

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The President was impeached.
impeached = formally charged with unlawful activity
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    He dodged impeachment but was not reelected to office in 1868.  (source)
    impeachment = formal process of removal from office because of misconduct

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    In Maine he is elected Governor by the largest majority in the history of the state and returned to office three times, where he alienates political friends by refusing to agree to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.  (source)
    impeachment = formally charging with illegal action
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    Judges have a lifetime appointment and can be impeached and removed from office.  (source)
    impeached = formally accused of wrongdoing
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    Knowing that he was going to be investigated and fearing impeachment, Bullock did not wait.†  (source)
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    Highly educated, unimpeachable manners, appropriately sociable.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.†  (source)
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    His purpose is to impeach the credibility of another witness, not to give evidence.†  (source)
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    The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'†  (source)
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    The U.S. Supreme Court has long required that the prosecution disclose to the defendant anything that is exculpatory or that may be helpful to the defendant in impeaching a witness.†  (source)
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    Legislative: Senate: Number 65 —House Impeaches, Senate Tries†  (source)
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    Joseph Smith Fowler of Tennessee, like Ross, Henderson, and Van Winkle a freshman Senator, at first thought the President impeachable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    When the drinks had first been served to them, ten or fifteen minutes earlier, Lane had sampled his, then sat back and briefly looked around the room with an almost palpable sense of well-being at finding himself (he must have been sure no one could dispute) in the right place with an unimpeachably right-looking girl—a girl who was not only extraordinarily pretty but, so much the better, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    'Of course,' said Mr Merdle, 'there must be the strictest integrity and uprightness in these transactions; there must be the purest faith between man and man; there must be unimpeached and unimpeachable confidence; or business could not be carried on.'†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeached means not and reverses the meaning of impeached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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impeach as in:  impeach her honesty

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    She impeached his integrity with questioning about the forged documents.
    impeached = seriously questioned
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    The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn't wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.  (source)
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    If my old friend Reepicheep the Mouse were here, he would say we could not now refuse the adventures of Bism without a great impeachment to our honour.  (source)
    impeachment = criticism (of character)
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    And here I stand, both to impeach and purge Myself condemned and myself excus'd.  (source)
    impeach = criticize
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    "That is Mr. Baggins, a hobbit of good family and unimpeachable reputation," said Gandalf.  (source)
    unimpeachable = not capable of being criticized
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats.  (source)
    unimpeachably = in a way that cannot be challenged
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.  (source)
    impeachment = criticism (of character)
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