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
Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain, which has been perhaps more hag-ridden by fear of war than any other nation, the spread of this prayer unites Anglicans and Nonconformists as they have not been united in centuries.
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
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.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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