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reading someone to filth

reading someone to filth is the present participle and gerund of read someone to filth.

Meaning of read someone to filth

Verb

read someone to filth (third-person singular simple present reads someone to filth, present participle reading someone to filth, simple past and past participle read someone to filth)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To thoroughly insult, to comprehensively call attention to the flaws or shortcomings of (someone).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:read someone to filth.

Questions about reading someone to filth

What is reading someone to filth the present participle and gerund of?
Reading someone to filth is the present participle and gerund of read someone to filth.

Words near reading someone to filth in the dictionary

  1. reading over
  2. reading room
  3. reading rooms
  4. reading someone for filth
  5. reading someone the riot act
  6. reading someone to filth
  7. reading someone's beads
  8. reading someone's lips
  9. reading someone's mind
  10. reading stone
  11. reading stones

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