hag-ridden
Britishadjective
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tormented or worried, as if by a witch
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facetious (of a man) harassed by women
Example Sentences
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Western Europe, and Japan too, are hag-ridden with fears that their hard-won recovery might be crushed between the Iron Curtain and a U.S. tariff wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Isabelle's hag-ridden father, Gregoire Asian can convey more with a lowered eyelid than most men do with a shrug of their shoulders.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon is hag-ridden by uncertainty about the terms on which Washington might agree to end the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas, poor devil! spectres are appointed to haunt him: one age he is hag-ridden, bewitched; the next, priestridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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