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
Previous to this, as is the habit in bohemia, they had been denouncing publishers and discussing work finished, in hand, and still to do; also the prices and competition for their labors.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Albert Bigelow Paine
Also "Mac" was Peter's personal enemy; "Mac" had just returned from his organizing trip in the oil fields, and had been denouncing Peter and gossiping about him in the various radical groups.
From 100%: the Story of a Patriot by Upton Sinclair
