call into question

Verb

call into question

1. (transitive) To cause to be questioned; to introduce doubt regarding.

   This immoral act calls his reputation into question.

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.