slander
noun
had been slandering
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past perfect progressiveof slander.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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Perhaps the usurer had been slandering his friend.
From The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau
Burney mentions a report that Hawkins had been slandering Johnson.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
He had a vague idea of some judgment descending upon them all from this great man whom they had been slandering.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
Besides, we know that Essex, and after him Cecil and Henry Howard, had been slandering Raleigh basely to James.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
