How to use hagridden in a sentence
You are all besotted—hag-ridden—drunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof.
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles KingsleyBut I carried double weight: jealousy is a heavy hag, and I was hag-ridden morn and eve and all the livelong day to boot.
The Little Red Foot | Robert W. ChambersFed by slaves from the cradle, hag-ridden by his vices; a purple young bully, a product of filthy sloth, scabbed with privilege.
Rest Harrow | Maurice HewlettLet the blue and hideous glare of the lightning, and the ghastly gleam of the hag-ridden meteor, illumine the deeds of my doing.
John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 | William Powell FrithHe is not the man to be hag-ridden like Macbeth, or humoured into remorseful deeds like Brutus.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for hag-ridden
tormented or worried, as if by a witch
facetious (of a man) harassed by women
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