snub
verb (used with object)
to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
had been snubbing
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past perfect progressiveof snub.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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Indeed, Redstone had been snubbing him for months--even deriding him in front of other executives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck’s neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
I expect you had been snubbing him terribly.”
From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck's neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.
From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
