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Recent Examples of fleabag
The fleabag sorority strikes again.
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Anahid Nersessian,
The New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2024
The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.
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Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2022
The idea was that after years as the most famous and majestic fleabag in Manhattan, the Chelsea was going to be made over into a boutique hotel, one that would draw on its layers of legend.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 July 2022
The women have criticized the league for putting them up in fleabag motels — literally.
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Mark Goodman,
The Denver Post,
12 July 2019
That meant—and here something of a mythical fog descends—living in Washington Square Park and fleabag hotels, and rotating through the sofas and beds of various friends and lovers.
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Stephen Metcalf,
The Atlantic,
24 June 2018
The movie is a glimpse into the daily lives of two little girls and a boy — Moonee, Jancey, and Scooty — living in two adjacent fleabag motels in Orlando that amount to bottom feeders in the tourism ecosystem.
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Kyle Smith,
National Review,
5 Oct. 2017
Downtown is rife with greasy diners, fleabag hotels and steamy dive bars.
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Karen Schoemer,
New York Times,
30 May 2017
Anahid Nersessian,
The New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2024
The Berkeley Inn, known to Geyer’s generation as a fleabag hotel, once stood on the parcel of land.
—
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2022
The idea was that after years as the most famous and majestic fleabag in Manhattan, the Chelsea was going to be made over into a boutique hotel, one that would draw on its layers of legend.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 July 2022
The women have criticized the league for putting them up in fleabag motels — literally.
—
Mark Goodman,
The Denver Post,
12 July 2019
That meant—and here something of a mythical fog descends—living in Washington Square Park and fleabag hotels, and rotating through the sofas and beds of various friends and lovers.
—
Stephen Metcalf,
The Atlantic,
24 June 2018
The movie is a glimpse into the daily lives of two little girls and a boy — Moonee, Jancey, and Scooty — living in two adjacent fleabag motels in Orlando that amount to bottom feeders in the tourism ecosystem.
—
Kyle Smith,
National Review,
5 Oct. 2017
Downtown is rife with greasy diners, fleabag hotels and steamy dive bars.
—
Karen Schoemer,
New York Times,
30 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fleabag
Noun
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Our flophouse in Harlem was growing crowded.
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His novels keep alive the Albany of the 1930s: the domain of swells, sports, and bums, of women with appetites, of flophouses and bowling alleys in the dark hours.
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Set in 1940s Mexico, the book follows a con artist who becomes intertwined in the schemes of a boardinghouse owner and her niece.
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As always, verisimilitude and the supernatural exist side by side in this tale of the denizens of a boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.
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The series follows married couple Vinny and Cole, who leave their cop careers behind to run a motel in a sunny beachside New Zealand town.
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Good hotel and motel accommodations are available at or near Sherbrooke, only a five or 10-minute drive from the best pools.
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Kenya’s deadliest school fire in recent history occurred in 2001 when 67 students died in a dormitory fire in Machakos County.
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While attending Carnegie Mellon University in 1996, Baer launched his first startup in his dormitory, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Getty Images Hollister is taking its biggest step yet beyond apparel, teaming up with Target on a new home and dorm collection as the Abercrombie & Fitch-owned brand looks to capitalize on the fast-growing back-to-college living market.
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The new owners have gut-renovated the residence, resulting in eight suites and a children’s dorm.
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“Fleabag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleabag. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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