Rat-ridden

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Full of or infested with rats..

Example Sentences

1905, Ford Madox Ford, The Benefactor, London: Brown, Langham & Co., Part IV, Chapter 3, p. 282, Years ago he had completed his purchase of the ramshackle and rat-ridden old barrack.

1999, Philip French, “He killed a boy, and the binmen are on strike. Life really stinks...” (review of the film Ratcatcher), The Guardian, 14 November, 1999, The polluted canal and the foetid, rat-ridden garbage become forceful symbols of a society indifferent to the suffering in its lower depths and the inability of the demoralised to change their condition.

He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out.

[…] what Miss Borton found was a rat-ridden and overcrowded superslum that could be steered to as a goal, and accepted as even temporarily habitable, only by men, women and children who had come straight out of hell.

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• more rat-ridden
• most rat-ridden

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