had been ostracizing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of ostracize.
  ostracize

  verb (used with object)

  to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc..

Related Words

• blackball
• blacklist
• exclude
• excommunicate
• expel
• shun
• snub