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  • adjective dominated or plagued by castes.

Etymologies

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caste +β€Ž -ridden

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Examples

  • Namericans unfairly characterize them as "caste-ridden, haughty, ritualistic, and murderous."

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • The old world is the much battled-over, caste-ridden region of Kashmir, home of his ancestors and of the Hindu gods and Brahmin traditions that his father forsook.

    In the Gutter, Seeing God 2009

  • We do know that before the arrival of the Cardassians, Bajor was a caste-ridden theocracy, so the planet was in definite need of liberation.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Johnny Pez 2008

  • We do know that before the arrival of the Cardassians, Bajor was a caste-ridden theocracy, so the planet was in definite need of liberation.

    Deep Space Nine: Dark Prophecy of the War on Terror Johnny Pez 2008

  • β€œThe picture Adiga draws of a determinedly caste-ridden, upwardly mobile, modern India is instructive, often horrifying and utterly, darkly hilarious.”

    THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

  • The Dalits occupy the bottom heap in caste-ridden Indian society.

    Indian communists take to caste mobilisation Abhay N 2007

  • What is most depressing is that Sikhs are becoming caste-ridden by Dipankar Gupta HT July 26, 2007

    Archive 2007-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • What is most depressing is that Sikhs are becoming caste-ridden by Dipankar Gupta HT July 26, 2007

    This is the most propitious moment for the Savitri Era Party Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • And a caste-ridden society is one of potential danger -- danger of eruption, danger for the liberty of all.

    Wanted: American Radicals 1943

  • Success may be in some degree a family affair in caste-ridden England; is it possible that the past history of the United States should show the same state of affairs?

    Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

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