denounce
verb (used with object)
to condemn or censure openly or publicly.
were denouncing
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past progressiveof denounce.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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"We believe that this decision does not live up to the issues we were denouncing, namely misleading commercial practices."
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
At the time, a swarm of Twitter accounts with usernames that included the title “Amazon FC Ambassador” materialized to respond to people who were denouncing the company.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2019
For editorials and letters, clubs and individuals, deckhands and doctors were denouncing an athletic system which debilitated any young man to a condition where disease could so rapidly invade him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worse yet, he obviously failed to keep in touch with Mao, whose journalistic mouthpieces, right up to the moment that Khrushchev accepted the proposal, were denouncing it as "deceptive," "ridiculous," "full of pitfalls."
From Time Magazine Archive
And all the time a number of the conventional Liberals were denouncing Mr. Rhodes for his shoddy Imperialism!
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
