slander
noun
was slandering
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past progressiveof slander.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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What was it he was reading while his unnatural son was slandering him to a stranger?
From The Riddle of the Night by Thomas W. Hanshew
Well, I heard before long that she was slandering me to all her acquaintances.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
If it were not for his visit at Rome, he says, he might fear that he was slandering the Popes in what he wrote about them.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
It was Lee who first warned Washington that Jefferson was slandering him in secret, and who kept him closely informed as to the political manuvres in Virginia.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
Mrs. Carleton glanced at the patient old horse, whom the doctor was slandering, with a slightly alarmed manner.
From After a Shadow and Other Stories by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
