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
“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
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
