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sex-ridden en · ADJ

Etymology

From sex + ridden.

Meanings

1. Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.
   • […] 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 […] 1987 August 17, Ezra Bowen, “Are Student Heads Full of Emptiness?”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2013:
   • 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. 1940, George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies”, in Inside the Whale, London: Victor Gollancz, page 96:
   • 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. 2014 June 2, Alexandra Schwartz, “The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs”, in The New Yorker:

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