I was dressing
Past progressive I conjugation of dress.
She told me that she didn't approve of the way I was dressing Jacquelyn.
Elle m'a dit qu'elle n'approuvait pas la manière dont j'habillais Jacquelyn.
Just like when I was not sannyāsī, I was dressing like any gentleman.
Tout comme lorsque je n'étais pas sannyāsī, je m'habillais comme tout gentleman.
Even when I thought I was dressing modestly, it was impossible to follow some arbitrary rubric for respectability that existed only in their brains.
Même quand j'avais l'impression de m'habiller sobrement, je n'arrivais jamais à entrer dans la case "respectabilité" qui n'existait que dans leur tête, de façon arbitraire.
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