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
The men of Wessex, priest-ridden, and enslaved by their own aristocracy, quailed before the free Norsemen, among whom was not a single serf.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles
I told him some things I knew of that hopeless land, that priest-ridden, king-ridden country—my own land.
From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson
The author attempts to rebut the idea "that priests have blighted societies with bitterness and gloom," by pointing out that in one or two priest-ridden countries wine and song and dance abound.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius
At'nt in pulpit now? when art a got up there I never mind what dost say; but I won't be priest-ridden, nor taught how to behave myself by thee.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
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