malign
verb (used with object)
was maligning
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past progressiveof malign.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist.
From Time Magazine Archive
This section at first was baffled by the contention of the neutrality party that the Government was maligning the Germans; but they were soon disillusioned.
From Native Life in South Africa by Sol (Solomon Tshekisho) Plaatje
“No,” he said, “it was childish;” and he felt directly after that he was maligning a really amiable woman.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
