revile
verb (used with object)
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
had been reviling
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past perfect progressiveof revile.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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The man who had been reviling the life of a soldier springs instantly to his feet and looks anxiously at his watch.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
Some gossiping tongue had been reviling her dear one.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock
The woman laughed as she folded up the paper—a laugh of such bitter mockery that it started even herself, as if some other person had been reviling her.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
