curse
noun
the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
had been cursing
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past perfect progressiveof curse.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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All present had been cursing II Duce, but all observed a politic silence before the officers save Pullucca and Pazzerini, who stupidly repeated that they recognized II Duce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tshombe even promised to respect the U.N. resolutions he had been cursing for weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They" had given him a decoration, a cross on the neck only last year, and he had been cursing the modern tendencies ever since.
From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
A cheer went up from those pilots who a moment before had been cursing the luck that had left them behind.
From Aces Up by Covington Clarke
Perhaps that might change the run of luck hitherto against him; and which he had been cursing with all his might ever since the number had been going through the teens.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
