libel
had been libelling
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past perfect progressiveof libel.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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Oh, I thought they had been libelling me to you.
From A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
