wrong
adjective
not in accordance with what is morally right or good.
had been wronging
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past perfect progressiveof wrong.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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Somehow the old creature felt as if she had been wronging the young girl who came back so frankly and kindly to her arms, by her conversation that night with her cousin.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
I had been wronging the man who stood before me.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
She had been wronging him, she had been criticising him, she had been looking for faults in him, her Huggo!
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
He had been wronging her; how much there was in her, this wise, old, sweet little Marjorie!
From Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. by Jennie (Drinkwater) Conklin Maria
To have adhered to his ordinary course in the colonel’s case, when he had become convinced that he had been wronging that officer, would have been obstinacy and littleness.”
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
