priest-ridden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Politicians say that they want us in their country, that they are priest-ridden, and hate and fear their Lamas.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
It is no exaggeration to say that, as surely as Spain and Portugal are priest-ridden, so surely is Great Britain lawyer-ridden.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
The author attempts to rebut the idea "that priests have blighted societies with bitterness and gloom," by pointing out that in one or two priest-ridden countries wine and song and dance abound.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West
Except poor priest-ridden Mary, who had a Spanish mother and a Spanish husband, they did not brook control, and no one was ever more conscious of being a king than Henry VIII.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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