Sex-ridden
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sex-ridden is an adjective meaning Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.
Meaning
Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.
Example Sentences
[…] higher education has failed to keep the flame of true learning or guide today’s students, many of whom appear to Bloom to be sex-ridden moneygrubbers marching to the beat of rock music […]
When the Gem and Magnet were started it is probable that there was a deliberate intention to get away from the guilty sex-ridden atmosphere that pervaded so much of the earlier literature for boys.
In Philip Roth’s “Zuckerman Unbound,” Zuckerman, rocketed to fame and fortune by a book that looks a lot like “Portnoy’s Complaint,” is set upon by anyone and everyone in New York—on the bus, in a coffee shop, in front of a funeral parlor. They come to ogle him, or to complain about his scandalous, sex-ridden novel, or to tell him what to do with his money.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hypersexual, supersexual, oversexed, supersexed, hypersexed, sexful.
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