cozenage
Example Sentences
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Abraham Cowley
Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
The shrug, the nod, the hem—every motion of the eyes, hands, feet—every air and gesture, look and word—became an expressive, though disguised, language of fraud and cozenage, big with deceit and swollen with ruin.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
It is true, he delivered it into his hand, desiring that he would hold it till he had sworn; but that artifice was a plain cozenage, and it was prettily discovered.
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