(v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
(v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
(v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
(n.) Hindrance; impeachment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(2) An impeachment effort would have no impact on the current proceedings "This is a case of our state's judges inserting their personal biases and political opinions into the equation," Christian told the Associated Press.
(3) China’s official Xinhua news agency wasted no time in responding to Park’s impeachment and accused her of dealing “a massive blow to [South Korea’s] relationship with Beijing” by agreeing to host the Thaad missile system.
(4) The [impeachment] process will be followed by the entire population.” To proceed, the removal proposal needs the support of at least two-thirds of the deputies, or 342 of the 513 votes in the lower house.
(5) The legislature is also due to begin impeachment hearings against a former house speaker and a former senate speaker for allegedly trying to amend the constitution, which the army suspended when it seized power.
(6) Last month, Lula’s successor president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and ejected from office less than halfway through her mandate on relatively minor charges of window-dressing state accounts ahead of the 2014 election.
(7) South Korea scandal explained: six key points on the cronyism claims engulfing the president Read more South Korea’s three biggest opposition parties claimed they had won the support of enough lawmakers from Park’s ruling Saenuri party to push ahead with impeachment.
(8) A recent petition backed by military officials sought to impeach Shwe Mann for his role in proposing amendments to the military-drafted constitution, which were anyway rejected.
(9) This followed the worrying decision to impeach the country's chief justice, through a process held to be illegal both by Sri Lanka's supreme court and by international experts.
(10) Instead, he wound up the debate by confirming that he would once again vote for impeachment.
(11) Mardom-e-Emrooz’s closure came after a number of conservative media outlets in Iran , including the daily paper Kayhan, demanded it be shut down and MPs threatened to impeach the culture minister if no action was taken.
(12) Of all the investigative work she's done, though, she is proudest of the inquiry she led into the independent counsel Ken Starr at the time of the impeachment of Bill Clinton .
(13) Questionable behavior is not the same as criminal or even impeachable conduct.
(14) We’re closer to impeachment than two or three months ago.
(15) The council previously suspended 22 junior judges who appeared in the video and investigated the conduct of high court judges to see if there was a case for their impeachment.
(16) Of course, Senate Republicans may decide this for themselves by voting Trump innocent in his impeachment trial in 2019.
(17) The House Republican leadership today called for the President's resignation and warned him that the alternative was a near-unanimous vote in the House of Representatives to be followed by an early trial in the Senate and probable conviction on the Bill of Impeachment.
(18) Park was impeached by parliament in December after accusations that she colluded with long-time friend Choi Soon-sil to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations set up to back the president’s policy initiatives.
(19) Johnson, who was part of a campaign in parliament in 2004 to impeach Blair, told LBC: "It would be hard to mount criminal charges.
(20) South Korea’s opposition parties are working towards launching impeachment proceedings against her but they need votes from Park’s ruling party if the motion is to succeed.
Unimpeachable
Definition:
(a.) Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saleh Abdeslam may be a terrorist, but his trial must be unimpeachable | Mary Dejevsky Read more He is fighting extradition to France, but could be surrendered to Paris under the terms of a European arrest warrant.
(2) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
(3) I’ve never done anything extraordinary,” says Finch in one of several brazen acts of self-exposition, “I think that’s why I play video games, ’cos they’re more interesting than my real life.” The words ring especially hollow when spoken by Gervais, whose limited emotional range and rising celebrity profile have transformed him into a sort of modern-day Hugh Grant (stay with me) whose audience appeal is apparently so unimpeachable that his flat presence – much less his incongruous Englishness – is considered no obstacle.
(4) U Htin Kyaw, just nominated by the NLD for president, is a stellar choice, well-respected, unimpeachable integrity, and a very nice man,” tweeted Thant Myint-U, a historian and the grandson of the former UN secretary general U Thant.
(5) He has somehow managed to seem wildly out of step with prevalent trends, even as his classic albums became an unimpeachable touchstone for a variety of new artists.
(6) Eyebrows were raised when Sisi decided to allow Islamists to enter the Egyptian military's officer training academy — when it had always insisted before that cadets were unimpeachably apolitical.
(7) Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin – these were political giants, men of unimpeachable integrity and manifestly driven by a high sense of duty.
(8) The OBR, headed by Sir Alan Budd – a top-class economist with an unimpeachable record of public service – is designed to prevent chancellors from tweaking Treasury forecasts in order to justify tax and spending decisions.
(9) He said he would create a method of verification by an "unimpeachable, impartial" individual or body that would certify that the new press regulator was compliant with Leveson in all respects.
(10) First up is his proposal to sell advertising space to corporations , which wouldn't in any way compromise the impartiality and unimpeachable integrity of Hertfordshire constabulary.
(11) Steven Spielberg's movie about Lincoln's constitutional dark night of the soul in the civil war – a choice to end slavery or end the bloodshed – leads the field with 12 Oscar nominations and offers Academy voters something reassuringly mainstream and essentially, unimpeachably patriotic.
(12) They may even oppose Corbyn on the unimpeachably anti-Tory grounds that he is guaranteeing a decade of Tory rule.
(13) Mr Heydon’s conduct has been unimpeachable,” Brandis told Sky News on Sunday.
(14) Sade, for instance, is relentlessly obscene, while Sacher-Masoch is unimpeachable.
(15) Not one Liberal Democrat MP has sought to follow David Davis and become an unimpeachable defender of civil liberties.
(16) In times of national crises,” Hetherington and Nelson wrote , “Americans rally to the president as the anthropomorphic symbol of national unity – a kind of living flag.” In some ways, our national nightmare would be a Trump dream: a period where his acclaim is absolute and unimpeachable.
(17) Leading the BBC – a job that mixes business with politics like no other – requires unimpeachable credentials, so Fairhead's candidature put her immediately under scrutiny.
(18) Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken."
(19) But his lesson, that if you wish to promote public austerity then the message comes best from someone of unimpeachable personal frugality, has been lost on David Cameron.
(20) The below is according to Marca, so must, of course, be of unimpeachable truth.