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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.
—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
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.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The spiritual unease that Harold Loomis brings to Seth and Bertha’s boardinghouse reaches a point of crisis at the end of the first act, with another, still more terrible outburst inevitably on the way.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2026
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At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Henson is making her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, a woman running a cozy Pittsburgh boardinghouse with her husband, Seth (Cedric the Entertainer), in 1911, during the Great Migration.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Sam Pollard directed the film, which explores the remarkable owners of that motel, Walter and Loree Bailey.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Police soon arrived at the motel where Vicky and Casey were staying, and the two fled in a gray Cadillac.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Neighbors in Berkeley delayed construction of a new UC dormitory for three years, claiming the students would create noise pollution.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Nataliia found a job in a dormitory, issuing bed linens to residents.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Opponents say bill makes women less safe Instances of trans people perpetrating violence in public bathrooms, locker rooms and dorm rooms are exceedingly rare.—
Jack Harvel
April 20,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2026
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These two beacons of truth and connoisseurs of mess have been bonded for over a decade, sharing the traumas of a crappy Boston dorm room and a pitiful Brooklyn dating scene.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Fleabag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleabag. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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