denounce
verb (used with object)
to condemn or censure openly or publicly.
had been denouncing
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past perfect progressiveof denounce.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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She added that the incident was "the final straw" in a long list of situations that players had been denouncing for years.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2023
Senate aides called the move a strategic olive branch to Grassley, who had been denouncing the hearings as a farce aimed at rushing the bill to passage and had filed 77 amendments.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2013
Meanwhile, other anti-Goslinites had been denouncing his reformed curriculum as too progressive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seldom have more significant words been uttered than those of John Randolph of Roanoke, when told that a certain man had been denouncing him.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
They had been denouncing him vigorously, and occasionally a Parthian shaft came after him:— "Begor, 't is quare, sure enough."
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
