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
For Egypt was a priest-ridden country in old days.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
From other descriptions we might have imagined Louis IX. as a bigoted, priest-ridden, credulous King.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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 Candler, Edmund
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 West, Julius
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