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- adjective dominated or plagued by
drugs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rents even in the bad neighborhoods are ridiculously high, and since I didn't want to raise children in those drug-ridden, high-crime areas, I had no choice but to leave.
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The prosecution presented a triple litany for jurors — when the victims disappeared in an impoverished, drug-ridden neighborhood, where their remains were found at his home and how Sowell allegedly killed them.
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They have managed to turn an unfortunate, drug-ridden, spiraling career into Lindsay's name becoming among the most often mentioned in Hollywood.
Jonathan Sprinkles: The Secret Addiction Behind Lindsay Lohan's Public Life Jonathan Sprinkles 2010
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In a widely-read 1971 Armed Forces Journal article, retired Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., wrote, “By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state of approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous.”
Nick Turse: What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo Won't Tell You About War 2010
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They have managed to turn an unfortunate, drug-ridden, spiraling career into Lindsay's name becoming among the most often mentioned in Hollywood.
Jonathan Sprinkles: The Secret Addiction Behind Lindsay Lohan's Public Life Jonathan Sprinkles 2010
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By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non-commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.
Larry Beinhart: Afghaninam, Vietnamistan Larry Beinhart 2010
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They have managed to turn an unfortunate, drug-ridden, spiraling career into Lindsay's name becoming among the most often mentioned in Hollywood.
Jonathan Sprinkles: The Secret Addiction Behind Lindsay Lohan's Public Life Jonathan Sprinkles 2010
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By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non-commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.
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I grew up in one of the most violent, drug-ridden public housing projects in the New York area.
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The battle between Zelaya and his opponents pits a reform president who is supported by labor unions and social organizations against a mafia-like, drug-ridden, corrupt political elite who is accustomed to choosing not only the Supreme Court and the Congress, but also the president.
Mark Weisbrot: Latin America Drags a Reluctant Washington Into Supporting Democracy in Honduras 2009
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