hagridden
IPA: hʌgrˈɪdʌn
adjective
- Tormented, harassed or worried.
- Overburdened by fear or dread.
hag-ridden
IPA: hˈægrˈɪdʌn
adjective
- Alternative spelling of hagridden [Tormented, harassed or worried.]
Examples of "hagridden" in Sentences
Examples of "hag-ridden" in Sentences
- He was neither overlorded by sentiment nor hag-ridden by imagination.
- And look at you: you're looking more decrepit and hag-ridden every day.
- China, proclaimed the New York Times, is “hag-ridden by the malignant woman.”
- Then why did he allow himself to be hag-ridden to his ruin by such a creature?
- Also, he was hag-ridden by ideas and ideals and without contact with the real world.
- That age above all others was hag-ridden by what C.S. Lewis (in the persona of Screwtape) mockingly called ‘the Historical Point of View.'
- Van thinks that it's likelier that someone with an extremely powerful Gift of some kind and a tendency to deep depression will be lifebonded than someone who is not so burdened and hag-ridden.
- As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
- In his view, Johnson felt permanently hag-ridden by guilt, by fear of divine punishment, by self-loathing at his own laziness and greed and inadequacy, and also (this being my own interpretation of the case as presented) by his very failure to feel that guilt and fear strongly enough.