malign
verb (used with object)
had been maligning
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past perfect progressiveof malign.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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It was manifest that she had been maligning Rachel, and instigating his mother to take up the cudgels against her.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Why, the Dunces had been maligning him all their days, long before the treatise on the Profund.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
