(v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
(2) I stammered out a few one-liners I’d written, and a couple of bits about being short largely filched from Ronnie Corbett.
(3) They filch public funds and flush the effluent from their own monuments into the same local infrastructure they beggar with tax breaks and bond issues.
(4) Darling will rightly reject George Osborne's calls for immediate tax rises or cuts in public spending to reduce the budget deficit but he should consider filching the shadow chancellor's proposal for an Office of Budget Responsibility, only with a different mandate from that proposed by the Conservatives.
(5) As ever with Murdoch, there is a sound business reason for attacking a company that has filched so much advertising revenue from newspaper groups such as News UK (as well as other newspaper groups of course).
(6) The drum break on her 1979 album track Our Love was filched for the beginning of New Order's Blue Monday , who also put the epic Patrick Cowley mix of I Feel Love on their Back to Mine compilation.
(7) "The Fed's current policy is based on the same presumption as its policy in the decade prior to 2007, that the smart thing to do is to filch an advantage that has not been earned.
(8) But the filching is so affectionate that you can't resent it.
(9) Hilton wrote in the Observer : “Surely we should be fighting corruption in the world, not feeding it with fat contracts that filch the earnings of British taxpayers to fund the lavish lifestyles of sleazy Chinese elites.” Apart from human rights, the state visit may be overshadowed by a sharp slowdown in Chinese growth – something that is likely have a major impact on the global economy and especially on the UK, as the largest European investor in China and the largest destination in Europe for China’s outward investment.
(10) Photograph: Frank Martin It’s the same sense of fairness that means that, sometimes in the cracks, while writing about other things, he takes time to punctiliously acknowledge his influences – Alan Coren , for example, who pioneered so many of the techniques of short humour that Terry and I have filched over the years; or the glorious, overstuffed, heady thing that is Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and its compiler, t he Rev E Cobham Brewer , that most serendipitious of authors.
(11) Chaplin’s granddaughter Kathleen, a singer, was there with her seven-year-old son Jaydn – and said he was already filching her iPhone to make films.
(12) Yet again, the British Conservatives – equally seduced a few years ago by Australia’s tough, points based immigration system – have filched policy from their former colony (and major migrant outpost) – to score a few cheap, political points in the year before a tough election.
(13) We remember John Hersey’s Hiroshima dispatch ; we forget that he filched copy from a James Agee biography.
(14) I'm A Celebrity contestant Janice Dickinson called him the lowest form of pond scum, Radar magazine's profile on him was titled Sultan of Sleeze, while blogging site Gawker said he was a "schlocky managing editor of a thieving celebrity news conglomerate" and accused him of filching stories from the website Courthouse News Service and passing them off as their own.
Fleece
Definition:
(n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(2) However, collagen fleece patches were only 8 cm X 4 cm in size and should be available in larger dimensions, particularly when it comes to larger sealing areas.
(3) After four months the treated male alpacas gained on average 3.1 kg more than the untreated males, and their fleece weighed 0.36 kg more.
(4) Meconium was present on the fleece of 114 newborn lambs in sixty-two per cent of the cases.
(5) At the group application of a granulated formula the fleece in some animals was removed hardly on the 11th-15th day, and with one sheep and 3 weaned lambs shearing was effected mechanically.
(6) has been saying for years - that credit card companies have been fleecing their customers with unfair, sky high credit card charges.
(7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(8) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
(9) In a flock of sheep of different genetic background not selected for resistance or susceptibility to fleece rot and fly strike, positive phenotypic correlations were also noted between fleece rot and plasma leakage.
(10) Hardening off in a cold frame or under fleece will take about two weeks; by that time, any fear of frost should have passed.
(11) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.
(12) I work in the freezer department so the cold doesn't affect me so much," he says, and laughs, but his son complains about their refusal to put the radiator on in his room; they bought him a fleece to wear in bed.
(13) Its widely trumpeted “success” is built on turning a blind eye to quasi-criminality in investment banking and to systemic fleecing of ignorant customers in the asset management industry through an opaque and self-serving fee structure.
(14) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
(15) The gene for white fleece (W), therefore, appears able to regulate pigmentation in Merino sheep, at least in part, by controlling the location and activity of melanocytes within the wool-bearing skin.
(16) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(17) Perhaps inevitably, there are also artful dodgers looking to fleece tourists of $100 (£64) to pass the gate.
(18) The genetic correlations between ewe productivity and weights at different ages were variable, ranging from -.71 between weaning weight and grease fleece weight to values greater than 1.00 for correlations between weight of lambs weaned and weights at birth, weaning and 18-mo.
(19) A human-collagen fleece (Beristypt) is now available for the first time.
(20) Four years into the credit crunch, it has become mainstream to distinguish between the important functions of banking and those things that the Financial Services Authority chair, Adair Turner, brands as "socially useless" : activities that involve someone getting rich by fleecing someone else, and leaving the taxpayer to pick up the pieces.