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hag-ridden

adjective

  1. tormented or worried, as if by a witch
  2. facetious.
    (of a man) harassed by women


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You are all besotted—hag-ridden—drunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof.

But I carried double weight: jealousy is a heavy hag, and I was hag-ridden morn and eve and all the livelong day to boot.

Fed by slaves from the cradle, hag-ridden by his vices; a purple young bully, a product of filthy sloth, scabbed with privilege.

Let the blue and hideous glare of the lightning, and the ghastly gleam of the hag-ridden meteor, illumine the deeds of my doing.

He is not the man to be hag-ridden like Macbeth, or humoured into remorseful deeds like Brutus.

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