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attack as false

impugn (v.)
(literally, "fight against") call in question; assail by words or arguments; attack as false; contradict; attack; malign
The treasurer should not have been offended when asked for a financial report. No one was impugning his honesty.
Source: vocabulary for the high school student by Harold Levine

Hello,
I know what "attack" and "false" mean but "attack as false" doesn't make sense to me as a whole. Would you please be kind enough to clarify it?

Thank you.
I described him as dishonest. (I described him, saying he was dishonest.)
To attack something as false... (to attack something, saying it is false.)
. used with adjectives

You can use as in front of an adjective to say how someone or something is regarded or described.

They regarded manual work .
His teachers described him .

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 (Found at The Free Dictionary site)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/as
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