priest-ridden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I was brought up in rural Ireland, which in the 1950s was a pretty sober society, priest-ridden and poor – not unlike Poland before the Berlin Wall came down.
From The Guardian
This phrase, in its blank and terrible irony, seemed to haunt Ireland for a long time, and even now I can’t hear it without thinking of Simon Dedalus’ dire pronouncement in A Portrait that “We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter.”
From Slate
Jefferson wrote: History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
From Time
They are a terribly priest-ridden people.
From Project Gutenberg
The result is obvious: Persia is a priest-ridden country; in “Sunni” lands the people are freer, and dare think for themselves.
From Project Gutenberg
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