fleeced

Speech parts

1. fleeced - Adjective

2. fleeced - Verb

Meaning

of Fleece

Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.

Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lifted stripped hook impoverished shear clipped abstracted soak pluck skinned bereft bereaved overcharge cheated beggarly
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Antonyms

rich wealthy happy fat prosperous affluent
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Examples

Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved. Oliver Goldsmith

Calves and heavily fleeced sheep are killed by attacking the flanks or hindquarters, causing shock and blood loss. Source: Internet

Are you being fleeced when mattress shopping? Source: Internet

I can see Majorca becoming deserted by tourists as they become ever more put off by hostility from the left wing idiots, taxed to death by the government and fleeced by hoteliers. Source: Internet

Believe it or not, people living around the new San Antonio developments are looking for quality and deals, not to be fleeced along with the high rents and traffic. Source: Internet

Silence on this issue appears rooted in a refusal to commit Labour to cancelling the fictitious debt through which tenants are being fleeced. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fleece-lined leggings fleece-lined long underwear fleeceable fleeceflower fleecehold fleeceless