Crossword clues for flea-bitten
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flea-bitten \flea"-bit`ten\, a.
Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.
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same as creaky, 1. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: creaky, decrepit, run-down, rundown, woebegone.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Infested with fleas 2 decrepit or dilapidated
WordNet
Usage examples of "flea-bitten".
And His Majesty, who at that time was prosecuting one war in the north and another in the west, thought it the better course to follow to not pick another fight with Rome at the same time, so he finally sent the flea-bitten old desert rat back to Dublin with assurances that word of his quite innocent attempts to reinstitute some usages of past centuries had been deliberately blown up and embroidered upon by his legions of sworn enemies to give the appearance of a state of apostasy in his household and realm and that there was no truth or merit to any of it and that only a man slipping into his senile dotage would have believed the tale of Ard-Righ Brian VII, Righ of Mide and Ri of the southern branch of Ui Neill to begin.
If it is ordained that thou shouldst advance the ends of the Brotherhood by being shark-bitten, or flea-bitten, or bitten by sharpers, to the detriment of thy carnal wealth, or, shortly, to suffer any shame or torment whatsoever, even to strappado and scarpines, thou art bound to obey thy destiny, and not, after that vain Roman conceit, to choose the manner of thine own death, which is indeed only another sort of self-murder.
All the while, Yun Yun would gesture and point at Lindsey as if she were a flea-bitten chihuahua in the corner.
Possibly the disguise might be improved to the greater satisfaction of an and create even more merriment for the many were they to leave this place upon four feet instead of two—perchance in the form of a mangy alleycat and that of a flea-bitten Wonk, in which to howl a mirthful duet to the uncaring moon?
You cock-sucking blood-licking-arse-kissing defilers of sacred shrines, you brainless heartless gutless cockless offspring of an imbecile and a deformed cow, you flea-bitten child-robbers who poisoned your fathers and raped your mothers and sold your sisters to the Dutch and carved up your brothers for sale in a butcher's shop, you gutter-hugging traders in second-hand excrement, why didn't you do anything about this?