Crossword clues for fleeced
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fleeced \Fleeced\, a.
Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
--Spenser.Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced.
--Fuller. To spread over as with wool. [R.]
--Thomson.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: fleece)
Usage examples of "fleeced".
Rexford but infinitely less prepossessing, looked over her spectacles from the large novel she was involved in and said with careful clarity -- as if that question, from a fleeced goat-boy at just that moment, were exactly what she'd expected -- "Yes.
You’ve changed hair and eye color, and it’s been two weeks since you fleeced him.
The two Indians had been eager to placate the Englishmen once they realized that Chase and Sharpe had no intention of telling the rest of the fleeced victims that Nana Rao still lived, and so the merchants had fed their unwanted guests, plied them with arrack, paid the money, sworn eternal friendship and bid them good night.
A wealthy 84-year-old widow in Houston was fleeced of $367,000 by Irish travelers who did only $2,500 worth of home repairs over 22 months.