Sentence examples for being shafted from inspiring English sources

Hello to all the decent and friendly and promising human beings currently being shafted by their government, much as we are being shafted by ours.

Wake up, people we're being shafted.

Am I being shafted out of a raise/bonus/stock?

Like Grace Jones, pick the motoring metaphor for being shafted you prefer.

"Queens is being shafted all the time," said Karen Koslowitz, a City Council member from Queens and the chairwoman of the Council's Economic Development Committee.

A common rage at economic and social injustice and the feeling that "the 99%" are being shafted by society's richest 1%.

Snakeskin's shafted me.

"I was shafted," he said.

It's shaft or be shafted, a somewhat less aspirational notion than what took Mr. Obama to the White House.

"People who have been shafted don't forget, they vote," she said.

It's often a retaliation on the part of someone that feels they have been shafted".