priest-ridden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he specialised as a lama, for in that character he would meet with the least interference in the priest-ridden country.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
It is no exaggeration to say that, as surely as Spain and Portugal are priest-ridden, so surely is Great Britain lawyer-ridden.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
Yet we are not in the least a priest-ridden people.
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert
England is no longer priest-ridden, sir; but she is worse, she is law-ridden.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
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