Crossword-Solution: FLEECED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fleeced | imp. & p. p. | of Fleece |
| Fleeced | a. | Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. |
| Fleeced | a. | Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “FLEECED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Got wool from sheep | 1 answer |
| Like a sheep that's been ripped off? | 1 answer |
| shorn | 2 answers |
| Rooked | 2 answers |
| Gypped | 3 answers |
| Took to the cleaners | 3 answers |
| Chiseled | 4 answers |
| Bilked | 6 answers |
| Defrauded. | 8 answers |
| Ripped off | 14 answers |
| Took | 17 answers |
| Conned | 18 answers |
| Swindled | 25 answers |
| Took in | 29 answers |
| cheated | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLEECED (5)
First they passed by Malea, and then along the Laconian coast they came to Taenarum, sea-garlanded town and country of Helios who gladdens men, where the thick-fleeced sheep of the lord Helios feed continually and occupy a glad-some country.
Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns you pay dearly for luxuries; in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.
The few hundred dollars he received he probably sunk in unproductive mining work, or was fleeced out of in the towns.
His brother Stephen lost L11,000 two nights after, and Charles L10,000 more on the 13th; so that in three nights the two brothers--the eldest not _twenty-five_ years of age--lost L32,000!(128) (128) Timbs, _ubi supra._ On one occasion Stephen Fox was dreadfully fleeced at a gaming house at the West End.
Moreover, there can be no doubt that many modern instances of billiard sharping occur, such as I have just quoted, in which the unwary are unscrupulously 'fleeced.' I know of several.
Quotes with FLEECED (3)
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- the…
Oh, I was but a wounded Beast Oh, I was but a wounded Beast Teeth gnashing from a brutal feast Wolfing down with others; consuming every bite Eating every poison laid before my sight I dined upon Iniquity’s endless shelf Blindly feeding, greedily…on myself Oh, I was but a wounded Beast Expiring with every taste of yeast Belly puffed and sour with death A haunting shutter with every breath Full of nothing but vanity Dipped in pleasure and tragedy Oh, I was but a wounded Beast …
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reforme…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1960–2019).