Meanings of as rife in English

Piracy is as rife as the reduced sea traffic nowadays can support.

The false rumor is as rife as false rumors usually are.

The state's Democratic Party is seen as rife with scandal.

The war spirit is well-nigh as rife in this country as at Barcelona and Cadiz.

In this land of plenty the camaradas over-ate, and sickness was as rife among them as ever.

Graft is as rampant as in any district of the world across the sea; cruelty is as rife.

Gross characterizes theoretical physics as rife with esoteric speculations, a strange superposition of practical robustness and theoretical confusion.

Discovery has but just begun, and will, I doubt not, be as rife in future ages as in this.

Rumour was just as rife and startling among us on the field as among the millions of a humming city.

If he couldn't control his babbling, the fort would soon be as rife with rumors about his sanity as his Legion had been.

A slow government response has worsened conditions for victims, health workers say, amid criticism of affected local states seen as rife with inefficiency and corruption.

Ireland's most famous vampirologist came under attack at the World Dracula Congress held in Transylvania yesterday for portraying Romania as rife with the blood-sucking creatures.

Bribery and corruption were as rife and as extravagant under the triennial system as ever they had been before, or as they ever were since.

'But the same things happen in cities, where alienation and hardship are just as rife,' argued May.