Sin-ridden

Quick meaning: Sin-ridden is an adjective meaning Dominated or plagued by sin.

Meaning

Dominated or plagued by sin.

Example Sentences

The dramatist tunes his plays to suit his moods. If in his tragic mood Shakespeare had staged a sin-ridden world, in his new mood he was rather to stage a world in which sin looked like an intruder.

In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare, Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare; Crimped with the crimes of a city, sin-ridden and bridled with lies, In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies.

There was something else, too, connected with Jonas and the cow, which made Manda refuse to have anything to do with the animal. She would not drink the milk of that “sin-ridden creature,” she would say when she went round the farms, begging for a sip of Christian cow’s milk.

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Related dictionary entries include sinful, devil-ridden, sinlike, priest-ridden, caste-ridden, sinny.

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