spoiled priest
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He later described himself as "a spoiled priest".
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2020
He turns pro, pilfering privileged homes and allying himself with a series of outcasts: a spoiled priest, anarchists, and demimondaines who find him criminally good-looking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest" and who now brings him a jar of her own pickled onions.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tells him, too, his being a spoiled priest will cost his brother his bride and her fortune that would help them to pay off their debts.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius
"Well, keep up your spirits; I'll soon have news for you about this spoiled priest."
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
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