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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She never dreamed that he was reviling himself for a blackguard even as he uttered it.
From The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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
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
He was reviling at that moment certain Allied officers who had not seen fit to visit him.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein
