Thesaurus results for FLEECED

fleeced

verb

past tense of fleece

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats swindlers who use the telephone to fleece senior citizens out of their savings

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Recent Examples of fleeced Mexican cartels have fleeced American victims for hundreds of millions of dollars through timeshare fraud over the decades, treasury officials said, targeted them through call centers staffed by English-speaking telemarketers. —

Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026 Compared with the ostensible consequences of the prisoner’s dilemma, getting fleeced in the snowdrift problem’s scenario isn’t quite as disastrous. —

Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026 Their false claims about getting financially fleeced by Uncle Sam were fueled by a rather sophisticated, albeit deceitful and shameful lobbying campaign, sponsored by greedy gadflies out to make a quick buck. —

Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026 Zach Harper basically wrote that Atlanta got fleeced here, though. —

Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026 So how does a front office this wary of getting fleeced tackle a deadline in which they’re meant to be major players? —

Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026 Donovan writes—the perception that men were being fleeced persisted. —

Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 And scores of those victims were fleeced by scammers inside stores owned by Circle K, one of the crypto ATM industry’s biggest corporate partners. —

Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025 The mobsters are accused of pocketing some of the $7 million that was fleeced from unsuspecting victims who were drawn to poker tables in Las Vegas, Miami, Manhattan and Long Island’s seaside playground for the rich and famous. —

Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025

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Verb

Some people like to vote on election day, said Dianne Clinkscale from Dallas, arguing that the county’s voters got cheated out their right on to vote.

— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
Visitors to the sites at Independence Park were cheated when they were cut off from facts that enable us to imagine ourselves in the lives of those who lived and worked there.

— Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026