Sentence examples for be fleeced from inspiring English sources

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be fleeced

verb

To con or trick someone out of money

  • There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.

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I could be fleeced so easily".

"Workers and savers can ALWAYS be fleeced by devaluing currency.

That's Europe for you, meddling with our historic right to be fleeced by the banks.

Yet they allow themselves to be fleeced regularly by their insurance companies.

This demographic is perfectly happy to be fleeced, it seems, but only in exchange for proximity to La Streisand.

Should we give him back control of his money or would that be setting him up to be fleeced?

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If they succeed, they'll be fleecing traders, not keeping them from buying and selling stocks.

But they haven't been fleeced.

I've been fleeced numerous times.

It is the unsophisticated savers who have been fleeced.

Didn't people notice they were being fleeced?

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