fool
noun
a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
had been fooling
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past perfect progressiveof fool.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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And, it was through the rewriting that Mr. Jenkins realized he had been fooling himself.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
Suddenly, I knew that Mama and I had been fooling ourselves.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
That afternoon, in Egypt, she’d put her books down on the edge of the temple floor and Ken had been fooling around and knocked them off.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
And always they had been fooling themselves, and they knew it.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
He sent a representative after they didn’t sign to the above-mentioned friend to ask him whether the government had been fooling him all the time.
From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey
