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had been blackening
  • past perfect progressive of blacken.

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He vehemently swore he knew nothing about it, and insisted upon hearing what poisonous old woman had been blackening his name, and what infamous lies I had been fool enough to believe.

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne