spurn
verb (used with object)
to reject with disdain; scorn.
had been spurning
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past perfect progressiveof spurn.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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And big investors scurried to snap up the last half of the big A. T. & T. debentures, which they had been spurning on the ground that the rate should have even been higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a wicked point to all the sewing and cooking that they were trying to impress upon me, the tedious lessons I had been spurning and ducking.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
