fleeced

[ fleest ]

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.

Other Word Forms

• un·fleeced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fleeced¹

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

Example Sentences

This made him feel vulnerable for his first two-and-a-half years - and, he says, liable to being fleeced, for example, by those increasing prices because he seemed foreign.

From BBC

"We feel fleeced. I feel as if I pay a second council tax to live where I am."

From BBC

Because if they were new to fixing, they could be fleeced.

From BBC

A global network has fleeced students out of tens of thousands of pounds for worthless visa documents they hoped would enable them to work in the UK.

From BBC

Following a string of failed singles, Martell told Rolling Stone in 2020, “We learned that the music business is most difficult, and you can really, really be fleeced.”

From Salon