hagridden
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hagridden
Example Sentences
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But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph�a passion that, in Mann's account, transforms her from a cool and indolent lady of fashion to a desperate, pitiable, hagridden monster, willing to consider the murder of her husband and finally abandoning all shame in the terrific scene that is the climax of the Biblical account.
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What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth?
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Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition.
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Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo is the most hagridden hero in opera.
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Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity.
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