cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind.
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George
"They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like libertines of sin."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
It falls perpetually into such necessities as drive it into all the meanest and most sordid ways of borrowing, cozenage, and robbery, Mancipiis locopules, eget aris Cappadocum Rex.
From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham
It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
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