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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Much of Kinnell's poetry, Ricks snorts, sounds like "one interminable hag-ridden letter" to his mother.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Commuters who go in and out of town every day are a notoriously hag-ridden lot, and the men who go on the road are not much better.
From The Book of Business Etiquette by Henney, Nella
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