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had been wronging

  • past perfect progressive
    of wrong.
    wrong
    adjective
    not in accordance with what is morally right or good.

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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

Eliza alleged that one William Waverton had been wronging her by keeping her down-trodden and withholding her hire.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

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

There was something not so bad in the creature after all; and I began to fancy, I had been wronging her.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach

I had been wronging the man who stood before me.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid