rat-ridden
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more rat-ridden (comparative)
most rat-ridden (superlative)