revile
verb (used with object)
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
was reviling
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past progressiveof revile.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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The class whom he was reviling seemed, however, during "the day of his destiny," bent on confirming his judgment by the blindness of their worship.
From Byron by John Nichol
At this moment Jane Mucklow was reviling him, because she laid her George's approaching death at the Squire's door.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
O curse my tongue that was reviling you so today.
From Tales from Tennyson by Molly K. Bellew
Clancarty was reviling Charles, James, Louis, England, and the world at large.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
On the contrary, she knows only pity for him who, but a few minutes before, she was reviling in her thoughts.
From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
