fleeced

American  

[fleest] / flist /

adjective

1. having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination).

   a thick-fleeced animal.

2. covered with fleece or a fleecelike material.

3. (of a fabric) having a softly napped surface.

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Other Word Forms

• unfleeced adjective

Etymology

Origin of fleeced

First recorded in 1520–30; fleece + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Related: ‘I have lost nearly everything’: My mother’s trustee changed her $1 million will and my attorney fleeced me.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

Williamson, who allegedly fleeced Becerra’s political kitty when she owned a government relations firm before joining Newsom’s staff, pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud charges.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

There’s Mamdani near Bryant Park, asking halal cart vendors how much they’d sell their $10 chicken-over-rice plates if they weren’t getting fleeced by permit farmers hoarding licenses from the city.

From Salon • May 1, 2025

There was plenty of reason to wonder if the Broncos got fleeced before Wilson ever took a snap for them.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis