well-plucked
- a word derived from pluck.
Example Sentences
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Amid unsettling small sounds, sliding tones, long-held pitches and well-plucked heartbeat strings, the violas, in their middle-way range and manner, kept the balance.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Yet he was a well-plucked one, if ever there was such a party on this airth.
From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)
We now fell to work picking each other, as the Dean had suggested, and were soon as clean of feathers as any other well-plucked geese.
From Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner by Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel)
"That's a rare well-plucked little 'un!" cried Joe Baillie.
From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Dicky was well-plucked though, bad as he was.
From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur
