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
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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.
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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
Much of Kinnell's poetry, Ricks snorts, sounds like "one interminable hag-ridden letter" to his mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
In short, she was out of health, out of looks, out of heart, and hag-ridden by her conscience.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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